If you google 'Unisys', the first result is an article saying that Profit Tanks at Unisys Corporation
Apparently their year-over-year profits are down 54%, to $21 million from over $50 million a year ago, and their Technology sector revenue declined 31%. Apparently this is driven by a lack of demand for their ClearPath server line.
So by pumping this 'intenet kill switch' idea, it may be that they expect to be first in line to implement it, and get some handsome profits from the taxpayer pie in the bargain.
This is about as believable as Bill Gates and other tech leaders trumpeting that there were not enough skilled US IT workers a few years back. Sure there were, just not at the immigrant prices that Gates and others wanted to pay. Here's a video from a recruiter seminar instructing recruiters on how not to find qualified American applicants for jobs while putting in the legally required advertisements. Look for the speaker stating at about 1:44 into the video that "our goal here is clearly not to find a qualified and interested US worker".
Of course corporations are going to release self-serving announcements like this -- it's just fulfilling their legal mandate to act in the best interests of their shareholders. In other news, the sky is blue.
The people who are outraged over Citizens United never found the time to complain when the for-profit New York Times was endorsing political candidates.
Nice attempt at raising a false equivalency argument.
Newspapers have always provided news and opinion in America, and many have argued that this is a vital role in a democracy. Publishing the New York Times or any other newspaper, or even broadcasting Fox News was never illegal, so bringing them up is totally irrelevant to the issue at hand.
What was illegal was the use of general treasury union or corporate funds to purchase advertisements 30 days before an election. That's quite different from a journalism company pursuing the normal course of their business.
It's not so much about harm as it is about consent.
How does an animal about to be slaughtered for food give consent?
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