1. "ClosedAI" is not gonna win people over to your side, IMHO. Apple doesn't plant trees, Microsoft makes big hardware, and Python is not satanic.

2. I'm not entirely sure what the link is supposed to prove -- would appreciate a word of clarification if you find the time. It almost feels like a dogwhistle of some kind, but A) I doubt anyone on HN is anywhere near that problematic, and B) there's no clear pattern in those companies other than "interested in ID tech", and none of the usual dogwhistle targets made the list. Also, y'know, OpenAI isn't on it...?

I guess my fundamental confusion isn't about the list and more about what "we know". Are you implying that they are against pure, unmanaged PGP for this system because... I mean, why? Because they're playing the long game to promote a verification/attestation/identification (?) technology that you think offers less stringent privacy guarantees, and thus to sell more ads in 2036?

If so, doesn't that seem like a kinda roundabout way to raise Display Ads revenue, otherwise known as "that one dying industry"?