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Why? What is the point of owning language?

• drivingmenuts 7y ago
  If you own the language to communicate, you can change meaning to suit your own needs at the time. Consider rebranding, common in the business world. Once upon a time, there was Blackwater, a company of mercenaries who committed acts of questionable ethics/morality. Several name changes later, the same company exists under a new name, disassociated from those acts, but generally appearing to be a new entity.
  • Freak_NL 7y ago
    They are now named Academi, and were briefly called Xe Services after renaming from Blackwater. The talk page is amusing: the current owners of Academi are trying to get their history rewritten on Wikipedia, because “Academi (ACADEMI), which is a Constellis company, was formed by a group of investors in 2010, who purchased certain assets from Blackwater”. I think they were active in Yemen the past few years.