03.15.21
Gemini version available ♊︎European Patent Office as Apparatus of American/Corporate Imperialism (by Surveillance and More)
Summary: I interject with my own (personal) opinions and interpretation of the situation at the EPO, which is basically sending all of its important data to the United States like some kind of a gift, in spite of the GDPR forbidding such a practice
TWENTY years ago a young Computer Science/Software Engineering student I was taught some of the basics of networking, including IPv6 (which we’ve still not fully adopted since then). We’re moving backwards in a lot of ways, including the outsourcing of servers to a bunch of monopolies — a cabal of surveillance giants from another country or countries. Have we lost the skills and talent needed to operate servers domestically (or on-site)? Or… maybe… are we just unable to compete economically with foreign hosting companies that are partly subsidised by the military (Microsoft is partly subsidised by American taxpayers)? They keep telling us (in US media) that “The Clown” will save us money and is the “wise” (or “smart”) choice, but on what basis? Whose agenda or objectives are served?
“If the European Patent Office has the word “European” in it, why does it send all its information to the US? Who owns the European Patent Office?”Wikipedia defines “full-spectrum dominance” as follows: “Full-spectrum dominance also known as full-spectrum superiority, is a military entity’s achievement of control over all dimensions of the battlespace, effectively possessing an overwhelming diversity of resources in such areas as terrestrial, aerial, maritime, subterranean, extraterrestrial, psychological, and bio- or cyber-technological warfare.
“Full spectrum dominance includes the physical battlespace; air, surface and sub-surface as well as the electromagnetic spectrum and information space. Control implies that freedom of opposition force assets to exploit the battlespace is wholly constrained.”
We’ve highlighted (bold face) the parts about control of minds, not just physical things. Wikipedia then quotes the famous Harold Pinter speech (I’ve watched it several times myself), in which he referred to the term in his 2005 Nobel Prize acceptance as follows: “I have said earlier that the United States is now totally frank about putting its cards on the table. That is the case. Its official declared policy is now defined as “full spectrum dominance”. That is not my term, it is theirs. “Full spectrum dominance” means control of land, sea, air and space and all attendant resources.”
If the European Patent Office has the word “European” in it, why does it send all its information to the US? Who owns the European Patent Office? For the uninitiated, here are previous parts in this series:
- EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law — Part I (Intro): A Fresh Data Protection Scandal Brewing at the EPO?
- EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law — Part I (Start of Series): Enter the “Cloud of Unknowing…”
- EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law — Part II: Steve Rowan Announces Microsoft “Outlook Migration”
- EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law — Part III: The PATRIOT Act and Mass Surveillance
- EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law — Part IV: The US CLOUD Act Passes Without Public Debate
- EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law — Part V: The EU GDPR
- EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law — Part VI: A Not-so-safe Harbour
- EPO and Microsoft Collude to Break the Law — Part VII: Lipstick on a Pig…
The next part will be published later today. Remember that “clown computing” means not only surveillance but also censorship (on behalf of governments and corporations); when Wikileaks exposed a lot of crimes in 2010 AWS (Amazon) deplatformed the site. Amazon receives a lot of money (federal contracts) from the government and the military, not to mention all sorts of tax breaks and special fares that render Amazon almost impossible to compete with. Some might call it state monopoly. Some might even compare that to the worst elements of “fascism” or “Communism”. █
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