#corporate control

It is the habit of modern institutions to protect us from words in the same way a nanny protects a child from the rain: with umbrellas, hoods, and blankets, until the child grows up and cannot bear a drop of weather on his own skin.

YouTube now censors certain words altogether, regardless of the circumstances in which they are used. The argument is that these words are indecent or dangerous. Yet a word stripped from a page does not vanish from the language. It continues to exist in the mind, in the street, in the schoolyard. It is only the honest record that is obliterated.

When I hear that a word like cunt is erased from the record, I do not suppose that anyone will be spared a cruel thought. The cruelty is already in the mind, and where the mind leads, the tongue will follow. To forbid the word is only to make discussion dishonest. Similarly, fag is a slur — and a vile one — but if one cannot quote it in order to analyse its vileness, the historian and the teacher alike are struck dumb.

This is the danger: the context is destroyed. A novel, a report, an inquiry into prejudice, all are flattened into the same category as abuse shouted in an alley. It is the logic of a machine, not of a human being. A machine cannot tell the difference between quotation and insult.

It would be foolish to suppose that banning words will eliminate hatred. Hatred is more inventive than that. It changes its mask as quickly as it is stripped away. Today’s proscribed word becomes tomorrow’s euphemism, and the prejudice goes marching on.

The true task is not to delete words but to illuminate them: to show their history, their sting, their purpose, and, when possible, to rob them of their power through openness. Censorship does not rob words of their power; it makes them more alluring, more mysterious, and more dangerous in private mouths.

Based on the video: AI Wars: How Corporations Hijacked the Anti‑AI Movement

In an age of algorithmic outrage and viral fear-mongering, it’s getting harder to tell who’s genuinely afraid of AI — and who’s profiting from your panic.

This series breaks down one of the most important (and misunderstood) videos about artificial intelligence and power: "AI Wars: How Corporations Hijacked the Anti‑AI Movement."

The video is over 3 hours long. You don’t have time for that. So we distilled it — into 6 bite-sized, spicy-as-hell essays.

🧩 What this series covers

Each article in this series focuses on one major idea from the film:

Where it all started: How corporations weaponized the original anti‑AI movement.

The hype trap: Why panic spreads faster than facts.

The theft myth: Debunking the idea that AI “steals” from artists.

The eco-scare: Who really benefits from blaming AI for climate damage.

Job loss hysteria: Why "AI will replace us all" is a narrative — not a reality.

Techno-feudalism: How Big Tech wants to make you a digital serf.

Each post takes just a few minutes to read — a hell of a lot faster than watching a 3-hour video. And you’ll come out smarter, sharper, and harder to manipulate.

📌 Why this matters

This isn’t just about AI.

It’s about how fear gets monetized. How power hides behind ethics. And how you, as a creator or user, are being quietly pushed out of the conversation — unless you pay, comply, and surrender your tools.

Today's giant US and Multinational Corporations do not exist to produce goods and services people need or want.

Instead, these giant corporations act as passthroughs to funnel money directly into the pockets of shareholders. Corporations will often engage in self-destructive or self-harming policies that bankrupt their companies, but manage to funnel ENORMOUS funds into shareholder pockets in the meantime. Then, we quickly see the govt swoop in and use tax-payer dollars to back the losses of those shareholders, making it so they've privatized the gains and socialized the losses.

These companies's behavior can often seem completely inexplicable when looked at outside the context of dividend payments and dividend recapitalization.

Dividend recapitalization itself is one the greatest examples of ruinous behavior by a corporation that benefits shareholders at the expense of employees and customers both.

A Dividend Recapitalization occurs when a company decides to go into debt with the express purpose of using that debt to pay dividends to shareholders and nothing else. None of the borrowed money is reinvested in the company or its employees.

This can easily result in a company's bankruptcy if it falls onto hard times immediately following a Dividend Recapitalization.

For example, in April 2002, KB Toys went deeply into debt to perform a Dividend Recapitalization, paying tens of millions of dollars in dividends to its shareholders and investors. By January 2004, KB Toys had filed Chapter 11 Bankruptcy, citing its Dividend Recapitalization process as the reason for its bankruptcy.

And you can find endless examples of this throughout recent history. It is unquestionable that Dividend Recapitalization is harmful, not just to the companies in question, but to the millions of tax payers who take a hit every time something like this happens.

The logical answer would be to ban Dividend Recapitalization completely, but our corrupt Neoliberal Govt is only interested in serving the desires of the Ruling Class. They could care less that Dividend Recapitalization often comes at a price for Taxpayers.

It is undoubtable that we need to have democratic control over the economy. At the moment, we barely have any democratic control over any other part of our society, let alone the economy.

It is well past time the Working Class of the US rise up in rebellion against the Capitalist Class and all their various tools of control that allow them to manipulate elections and retain control over the political machinery of the United States.