big tech is an ever-encroaching force in
our lives it's part of the reason why
every time i visit my local library i
move copies of 1984 in brave new world
from the fiction section to the
non-fiction section however it seems
like things may be getting better with
the cases that are being made to break
up some of these monopolies like meta
formerly facebook and john deere's
monopoly on equipment repairs with
facebook we're looking at an anti-trust
suit that has been filed against them
zuck's lawyers have filed a motion to
dismiss the case but a federal judge has
denied that motion the ftc argues that
facebook has been using the strategy of
buy and bury to stifle competition very
similar to microsoft's embrace extend
and extinguish model except buy and bury
is a little bit more streamlined since
facebook doesn't even add on to these
projects until it completely owns them
some examples of this are how facebook
ended up acquiring instagram and
whatsapp you see facebook attempted to
compete with these services before
buying them for billions of dollars
facebook is
already a site where people often share
photos just like they do on instagram
but instagram always was a superior
platform to do this activity
facebook couldn't compete so they
decided to buy instagram for one billion
dollars
same deal with whatsapp and facebook
messenger whatsapp was a vastly superior
platform so instead of improving
messenger to actually compete with
whatsapp facebook just decided to buy it
for 19 billion dollars
but this tuesday the judge overseeing
the case james boseberg ruled that the
ftc can proceed with its bid to force
facebook to sell whatsapp and instagram
but don't celebrate just yet facebook
still has time to fight back against
this so it's not over until the
globalist propaganda machine is divided
and conquered
next on the chopping block of monopoly
claims is john deere
well well look at the city slicker
pulling up in a stupid proprietary
tractor i have the class action lawsuit
that has been filed against them right
here now i'm not going to go through the
whole thing but this document is going
to be linked in the description of this
video if you would like to read over it
for yourself but one of the highlights
that we are going to go over
is on page 12 so where it mentions the
technology in john deere tractors modern
deer tractors are technologically
complex machines these tractors run
firmware that is necessary for the
tractor to perform its basic functions
without the firmware the product is
incomplete and will not run making the
firmware as vital a part of the basic
functioning of a tractor as a steering
wheel or an engine
the code that runs the internal engine
and the transmission components that are
required to make the tractor do anything
are effectively part of the machine the
tractor will not operate without that
code
the central computer on a tractor is the
engine control unit or ecu
the ecu determines how and if the
tractor functions like cars john deere
tractors use a large number of sensors
throughout the equipment that are
constantly monitored by the ecu when a
sensor notices an error no matter how
small or serious it can put the machine
into limp mode allowing farmers to move
the machine slowly but not operate it
fully when the problem is diagnosed and
repaired the error code is cleared and
the machine can continue working
according to a report from a u.s public
interest research group the john deere
s760 combine harvester has
125 different computer sensors in it if
any one of those sensors throw an error
code the combine will enter limp mode
troubleshooting deer tractors or
interpreting the error codes requires
software that deer refuses to make
available to the farmers that use this
equipment
so much like tesla's or pretty much any
other modern vehicle that's filled with
all kinds of spooky unnecessary
computers the code running on these john
deere tractors is absolutely proprietary
and even the most mechanically inclined
farmers cannot fix many of their
tractors or combine harvesters problems
because those computers are essentially
a black box that only authorized john
deere technicians can mess around with
now the situation is already bad enough
in motor vehicles like the tesla but at
least if you drive a tesla chances are
you're a city slicker that can easily
take it to a repair shop or have a
technician come to you but if you are a
farmer in a rural area
obviously it's going to be a lot harder
for your tractor to get fixed taking it
into the shop is basically not even an
option i mean have you ever tried towing
a tractor it's an absolute nightmare not
to mention a lot of the time these shops
are located in a more busy part of the
city
where you might not even be allowed to
have your tractor on the road in the
first place so
you're most likely gonna have to wait
for some guy to come down to your farm
to fix it for you and then chances are
you're going to be outside of whatever
jurisdiction they normally work in so
you're probably going to have to pay
extra money to have someone to come all
the way out to you and have your tractor
serviced
and the whole time you could be losing
money since a lot of farmers actually
use their equipment commercially to put
food on the table and a lot of these
things can't wait there's very small
windows for certain crops for when you
can plant them and when you can harvest
them it's not like oh okay my tractor
guy has to come out so i'm just gonna go
ahead and plant the corn next month no
that's not an option if you don't plant
the corn when it's time to plant it then
you're not going to get a crop that year
or at least your yields are going to be
significantly reduced tractors are not a
thing of leisure like these city
slickers with their fancy german car so
hopefully this class action lawsuit
actually does get some traction there's
only so many used tractors that are out
there in the world which by the way in
case you didn't know that is the best
choice if you're looking to get one
without any of that proprietary
tomfoolery that you can actually go
ahead and fix yourself
now the last story that i'll cover in
this video isn't really about big tech
but it's about one of our favorite
secure messaging platforms signal i have
some insiders in langley virginia that
have informed me that bioluminescent
government agents have been posting fud
about signal both on reddit and
mongolian basket weaving forums so the
claim here is that federal investigators
were able to access encrypted signal
messages that were sent by the leader of
the oath keepers one of the groups that
was involved in the capital riots back
in january 6 2021 and this information
that was found these messages were used
to prosecute some of those guys
now assuming that this story isn't just
complete fud
there are a couple of ways that the feds
can acquire messages from signal it's
not a bulletproof solution
but there are ways to get stuff from it
without actually compromising the
service one of those is if they have
physical access to your phone on older
android devices the storage of signal
messages are not encrypted by default
and even if they are encrypted it's
pretty trivial to access them if your
signal pin is easy to guess like your
date of birth
but if we just apply occam's razor to
the story
i think it's pretty easy to figure out
what happened i think that the most
likely scenario is that the leader of
the oath keepers forgot rule number
three
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you see signal is just one component of
secure
communications it's good to have but it
can ultimately be defeated if you aren't
using secure hardware with an up-to-date
secure operating system and having all
members of your team practice good opsec
and one of the most important parts of
practicing good opsec is never talk to
law enforcement so i'm going to keep on
using signal since i'm immune to fed
propaganda but thanks for watching the
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algorithm and have a great rest of your
day