"Multinationals using the Internet are basically impossible to tax. Look at Apple, at Google. And these technologies are linked to massive manipulation, not just in terms of manufacturing needs, but even [in terms of] the voting behavior in different countries. Ideally, the change toward democratizing the Internet would be in incremental ways."
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Quoted in On Radical Cultural Change, A conversation with political thinker and activist Helena Norberg-Hodge, William Powers, Earth Island Journal, (Spring 2020)
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