https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/11/27/style/what-is-inside-this-internet-rabbit-hole.html

Rather an interesting summary.

Those who have been reading have probably noticed that International Business Times used to run rather a few more hit pieces against us than would be remotely normal. And for an evangelical criminal organization running out of the state that brought us evangelical child torture and heroin trafficking, this is, erm, not surprising.

It's gone now, went the way of Azov's advance forces in the United States and several others. The article is a fascinating writeup, and details the USUAL pattern of activity : spam over shame. If you could avoid at least some of the shame, the popup boilerplate is otherwise a decent model.

There's a pretty good correlation between targeting us and, umm, going defunct. General Electric gave us Chris Hansen and SVU and financed a hate group (and with it, terrorist attacks on the United States). This...

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/dec/01/general-electric-titan-american-industry-lost-spark

...is the outcome, and NBC, like MOST of their actual assets, was lost just a few years later. Verizon, dumb enough to use monopoly power to attack epifora, is a mixed battlefront for the internet in general. It's managed to promote internet censorship...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/waynecrews/2014/01/14/court-rules-against-net-neutrality-in-verizon-v-fcc/

...but is not exactly running around scot-free.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/let-my-wi-fi-go-fcc-rules-verizon-cant-charge-for-wi-fi-tethering/

https://www.zdnet.com/article/verizon-will-lock-phones-despite-fcc-rules-against-it/

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/12/at-least-one-major-carrier-lied-about-its-4g-coverage-fcc-review-finds/

...and so on. The city of San Bernadino, I think it was, ransomed themselves swiftly and well. I consider it paid.

...but IBT, well... they ded, as an entity. The article up at the top is a pretty fascinating and in-depth overview, and pretty much outlines, well, the usual defects seen with these 'tards in every minor detail. Worship of established properties, combined with running them swiftly and immediately into the ground, for instance.

It's a good read. And by the way, our enemies keep coming up defunct.