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Sure. They sort of mirror the same trends everywhere involving the gathering of global wealth and resources into the hands of fewer and fewer entities and people.

A short sighted view of "cost" and a minute-to-minute need to show profit have resulted in some really destructive modern trends. Companies funding climate change denial to preserve oil profits are a good example that isn't new to the past 20 years, but has been intensified and nearly wrecked our chances of surviving on the planet by most accounts.

In my adult life I've also watched the explosion of the tech industry and it's parallel threat of increased surveillance and lack of privacy. That feels new.

But a lot of it also isn't new. The willingness to brutalize, abuse, and endanger the most defenseless people on the planet in the name of profit is old, but continues in horrible new ways. You need only look at the Dakota Access fight to see that that part of the struggle has been inherited.

The privatization of human being's right to clean drinking water is global, new, and begging to be addressed.

Our ability to protect workers in certain industries has also been almost destroyed by globalisation. That's new. I've talked to union leaders who fought for 2 years to restore worker's wages, only to win and have the factory close it's doors and move to Mexico. So the difficulty in trying to work globally to control corporations feels new.

Great question.

the most threatened I ever got was by Dov Charney, former CEO of American Apparel. I didn't feel that threatened though. I talk about this in the fundraising video, but he screamed at me on the phone for nearly an hour once. The result was a 78 page report produced for the site that unearthed new evidence in the trial against him. I was eventually deposed over that. It was a whole thing.

We also experienced some vandalism over the years but stayed on top of it. That was part of the reason we narrowed down the interface from a wiki, which is how the site started out.

I'm down but you gotta make it sexy for me. Throw a little toasted coconut or peanut butter in there. Don't just give me raisins, nahmean. Let's live while we're alive.

Yeah. That was the "whole thing" part. haha. He was eventually removed for his behavior. Which was a goddamn shame because his company was truly doing revolutionary things in some regard. His paternal wannabe Larry Flynt BS ruined a good thing though, it seems.

I don't have any offhand info about either of those companies, I'm afraid.

Corporate manipulation of the consumer is a crazy history all it's own. The series "Merchants of Cool" is a great place to start, but I also love a documentary called "Century of the Self" on the topic. "Knowmore.Tv" was a section of the previous site that housed a free archive of movies on a lot of topics, which I'd love to see revived.