I don't think this is a good analogy. It's more like you find that the lock on your stores front door has been broken for a long time and you just hadn't noticed. Nobody has broken in yet, but could at any moment. Also, it's not just your goods and business that are at risk, instead you're responsible for the protection of things that belong to other people.
Neat. This is probably a direct result of the stickermule controversy. Saw a ton of people recommending stickerninja as an alternative in various places.
"The stickermule controversy" is really only the most recent and probably most high profile stickermule controversy. They got sued in 2020 for some employment malfeasance and their political affiliations have been known since even before that.
So it's maybe still possible that stickerninja adopted this in response to increased business from people avoiding stickermule, just in a previous round.
That said, I don't accept corporations have the kind of personhood that should come with "inalienable rights" to speech as this kind of thing turns from "free and open debate" (good) into "those who have power get to be propagandists" (bad). And I'm saying that before reading the article, so I don't even know if this is a red or a blue (or yellow or green) thing.
Huh. Just realised a thing. If the US constitution is what gives corporations free speech, do US corporations also have a right to bear arms and form a militia?
Edit: Now I have read the page, still wasn't sure why this was potentially political, googled stickermule, never heard of them before.
Sticker Mule is one of the major internet-order small-batch/on-demand custom
sticker/T-shirt/swag suppliers. You may know them from "unixstickers".
Following Trump getting shot, Sticker Mule send out a marketing email to customers encouraging them to buy a T-shirt that "shows you support Trump."
This has caused many Sticker Mule customers to seek alternatives. Sticker Ninja has benefited greatly from this (they are "slammed", as TFA says). Sticker Ninja hasn't done anything political here, and that's sort of the point; they haven't while Sticker Mule has.
A corporation cannot bear arms without a physical person/object (drone?) doing so, whereas speech can be done by the corporation as a purely legal entity. I guess the closest is a corporation can hire someone to do it, but that someone ultimately is a person/drone. Employment is not bearing arms.
I find it slightly ironic that they're only able to do this effectively because they've been able to train their own detection model on traffic, mostly from users that have never agreed to anything.
I don't have strong opinions on this either way really, I just found that a bit funny.
The idea that the criminals are broke, talentless hacks is so wrong. They're the ones with the time and money. Especially more than industry researchers do. If some researcher finds a vulnerability in some widely-used software / device, high chance a malicious actor has already found it or will soon. Not sharing research is how you allow them to operate in the dark.
