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Two principles to protect internet users from decaying platforms

Today (May 10), I’m in VANCOUVER for a keynote at the Open Source Summit and later a book event for Red Team Blues at Heritage Hall; on Thurs (May 11), I’m in CALGARY for Wordfest.

Internet platforms have reached end-stage enshittification, where they claw back the goodies they once used to lure in end-users and business customers, trying to walk a tightrope in which there’s just enough value left to keep you locked in, but no more. It’s ugly out there.

If you’d like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here’s a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/05/10/soft-landings/#e2e-r2e

When the platforms took off — using a mix of predatory pricing, catch-and-kill acquisitions and anti-competitive mergers — they seemed unstoppable. Mark Zuckerberg became the unelected social media czar-for-life for billions of users. Youtube was viewed as the final stage of online video. Twitter seemed a bedrock of public discussion and an essential source for journalists.

During that era, the primary focus for reformers, regulators and politicians was on improving these giant platforms — demanding that they spend hundreds of millions on algorithmic filters, or billions on moderators. Implicit in these ideas was that the platforms would be an eternal fact of life, and the most important thing was to tame them and make them as benign as possible.

That’s still a laudable goal. We need better platforms, though filters don’t work, and human moderation has severe scaling limits and poses significant labor issues. But as the platforms hungrily devour their seed corn, shrinking and curdling, it’s time to turn our focus to helping users leave platforms with a minimum of pain. That is, it’s time to start thinking about how to make platforms fail well, as well as making them work well.

This week, I published a article setting out two proposals for better platform failure on EFF’s Deeplinks blog: “As Platforms Decay, Let’s Put Users First”:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/04/platforms-decay-lets-put-users-first

The first of these proposals is end-to-end. This is the internet’s founding principle: service providers should strive to deliver data from willing senders to willing receivers as efficiently and reliably as possible. This is the principle that separates the internet from earlier systems, like cable TV or the telephone system, where the service owners decided what information users received and under what circumstances.

The end-to-end principle is a bedrock of internet design, the key principle behind Net Neutrality and (of course) end-to-end-encryption. But when it comes to platforms, end-to-end is nowhere in sight. The fact that you follow someone on social media does not guarantee that you’ll see their updates. The fact that you searched for a specific product or merchant doesn’t guarantee that platforms like Ebay or Amazon or Google will show you the best match for your query. The fact that you hoisted someone’s email out of your spam folder doesn’t guarantee that you will see the next message they send you.

An end-to-end rule would create an obligation on platforms to put the communications of willing senders and willing receivers ahead of the money they can make by selling “advertising” in search priority, or charging media companies and performers to “boost” their posts to reach their own subscribers. It would address the real political speech issues of spamfiltering the solicited messages we asked our elected reps to send us. In other words, it would take the most anti-user platform policies off the table, even as the tech giants jettison the last pretense that platforms serve their users, rather than their owners:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/12/10/e2e/#the-censors-pen

The second proposal is for a right-to-exit: an obligation on tech companies to facilitate users’ departure from their platforms. For social media, that would mean adopting Mastodon-style standards for exporting your follower/followee list and importing it to a rival service when you want to go. This solves the collective action problem that shackles users to a service — you and your friends all hate the service, but you like each other, and you can’t agree on where to go or when to leave, so you all stay:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/12/19/better-failure/#let-my-tweeters-go

For audiences and creators who are locked to bad platforms with DRM — the encryption scheme that makes it impossible for you to break up with Amazon or other giants without throwing away your media — right to exit would oblige platforms to help rightsholders and audiences communicate with one another, so creators would be able to verify who their customers are, and give them download codes for other services.

Both these proposals have two specific virtues: they are easy to administer, and they are cheap to implement.

Take end-to-end: it’s easy to verify whether a platform reliably delivers messages from to all your followers. It’s easy to verify whether Amazon or Google search puts an exact match for your query at the top of the search results. Unlike complex, ambitious rules like “prevent online harassment,” end-to-end has an easy, bright-line test. An “end harassment” rule would be great, but pulling it off requires a crisp definition of “harassment.” It requires a finding of whether a given user’s conduct meets that definition. It requires a determination as to whether the platform did all it reasonably could to prevent harassment. These fact-intensive questions can take months or years to resolve.

Same goes for right-to-exit. It’s easy to determine whether a platform will make it easy for you to leave. You don’t need to convince a regulator to depose the platform’s engineers to find out whether they’ve configured their servers to make this work, you can just see for yourself. If a platform claims it has given you the data you need to hop to a rival and you dispute it, a regulator doesn’t have to verify your claims — they can just tell the platform to resend the data.

Administratibility is important, but so is cost of compliance. Many of the rules proposed for making platforms better are incredibly expensive to implement. For example, the EU’s rule requiring mandatory copyright filters for user-generated content has a pricetag starting in the hundreds of millions — small wonder that Google and Facebook supported this proposal. They know no one else can afford to comply with a rule like this, and buying their way to permanent dominance, without the threat of being disrupted by new offerings, is a sweet deal.

But complying with an end-to-end rule requires less engineering than breaking end-to-end. Services start by reliably delivering messages between willing senders and receivers, then they do extra engineering work to selectively break this, in order to extract payments from platform users. For small platform operators — say, volunteers or co-ops running Mastodon servers — this rule requires no additional expenditures.

Likewise for complying with right-to-exit; this is already present in open federated media protocols. A requirement for platforms to add right-to-exit is a requirement to implement an open standard, one that already has reference code and documentation. It’s not free by any means — scaling up reference implementations to the scale of large platforms is a big engineering challenge — but it’s a progressive tax, with the largest platforms bearing the largest costs.

Both of these proposals put control where it belongs: with users, not platform operators. They impose discipline on Big Tech by forcing them to compete in a market where users can easily slip from one service to the next, eluding attempts to lock them in and enshittify them.

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"A strike that paralyzed one of Canada’s largest shipyards was illegal, B.C.’s Labour Relations Board has ruled, setting a new precedent for future disputes.

The ruling, reversing an earlier decision, found other unions broke the law when they refused to cross picket lines at Seaspan’s North Vancouver shipyard last fall in solidarity with striking tugboat operators represented by the Canadian Merchant Services Guild.

That strike ended in October, and the Guild has since ratified a new collective agreement including significant boosts to pay, improved safety regulations and plans to cancel a new scheduling system.

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Jimi Hendrix's family

When Jimi was born, his father, Al, was a 23-year-old private in the U.S. Army, stationed at Fort Rucker, Ala. Jimi's mother, Lucille Jeter Hendrix, was only 17 and still a Seattle schoolgirl. They married on March 31, 1942, at the King County Courthouse in a quick ceremony, and only lived together as man and wife for three days before Al was shipped out to the service.

Al liked boxing and dancing.

Seattle, then headed to California to get the toddler.

The family in Berkeley attempted to talk Al into leaving Buster with them, and an adoption would have been easy to arrange. Al was conflicted, yet overwhelmed with paternal love. Al decided to take the boy.

In Seattle, Al and Jimi moved in with Aunt Delores to the Yesler Terrace housing project, the first racially integrated public housing in the United States. Lucille showed up soon after. For the first time the three Hendrixes were in the same room. By all accounts, the next several months were the smoothest the family would ever experience. Living with Lucille's sister, their expenses were minimal, so for once money was not an issue. Al was receiving small payments from the Army, and he and Lucille were able to go out on the town while Delores stayed with Jimi. Eventually, Dolores became fed up with Al and Lucille's drinking and kicked them out.

Al then found work at a slaughterhouse, and they moved to a transient hotel in the Jackson Street area. Their modest room had only a single bed, which he, Lucille and Buster shared. They had a one-burner hot plate to prepare meals, and the room's only other furniture was a desk chair. They lived in this hotel room for months, until Al took a job as a merchant marine and was shipped to Japan. When he returned, he found that Lucille had been evicted. Al later said she had been kicked out after being caught with another man in the room; Delores disputed Al's version of events, but whatever happened it did not stop Al from taking Lucille back again immediately, and thus a pattern emerged: fights and separations were an integral part of their marriage.

Just 11 months after Leon was born, Lucille gave birth to another boy, whom Al named Joseph Allan Hendrix. Al was listed as the father on the birth certificate, though in his later autobiography Al denied paternity. Where Jimi and Leon were both tall and lanky, Joe was short and stocky, but looked enough like Al to be his twin.

Joe's birth was not a joyous occasion, as the baby had several birth defects. Jimi had turned 6 the winter Joe was born, and the family now had three young children to feed. Al and Lucille often fought about which one of them caused Joe's medical problems: Lucille blamed Al for pushing her when she was pregnant; Al blamed Joe for drinking.

In official divorce proceedings, Al was awarded custody of Jimi, Leon and Joe. This was really a paper formality: As they had been during most of Al and Lucille's marriage, the Hendrix boys were raised by Grandma Clarice Jeter, Al's mother in Vancouver, Aunt Delores, friend Dorothy Harding and others in the neighborhood. And despite being divorced, Al and Lucille still were together sometimes, as their passion play continued. Joe, however, was scheduled to become a ward of the state, the only way to get his medical expenses totally covered. Lucille and Al had to give up parental rights and leave him at Children's Hospital.

Watching for Welfare

Lucille quickly went off again, and Al was left raising Leon and Jimi by himself. "The neighbors started to take over watching us," Leon recalled, "because they knew what was going to happen - that welfare was going to take us away." The welfare department workers drove green cars, and Leon and Jimi learned to watch for those vehicles and beat a retreat if they saw one. Leon and Jimi would usually end up at neighbors around dinnertime. "Jimi and I used to be so hungry, we'd go to the grocery store and steal," Leon said. "Jimi would be smart: He'd open a loaf of bread, pull out two piece, wrap it up, and put it back. Then he'd sneak into the meat department, and steal a package of ham to make a sandwich out of it."

In 1953, the family's fortunes improved when Al got a job with the city engineering department as a laborer. He purchased a small two-bedroom home at 2603 S. Washington St. Jimi was now attending Leschi, the most integrated elementary school in the city. Here, he met up with the boys who would become his closest childhood friends: Terry Johnson, Pernell Alexander and Jimmy Williams. Jimi occasionally joined Terry at Grace Methodist Church, and it was there that he had his first exposure to gospel music.

For entertainment the boys enjoyed swimming in Lake Washington or going to cheap matinees at the Atlas Theater, where Jimi fell in love with the "Flash Gordon" serial and especially with the movie "Prince Valiant." The villain in "Prince Valiant" was called "the Black Knight," and Jimi and Leon would charge each other with brooms in make-believe jousting matches. That same broom was also fashioned into an imaginary guitar. He would play along to the radio, strumming the broom as if it were a guitar.

By 1954, acting on repeated complaints from neighbors, a social worker eventually cornered Al Hendrix. He was given two choices: His sons could be sent to a foster home or be put up for adoption. Al argued that Jimi, almost a teenager, needed less caring for, and thus should stay with him. Leon, Al's favorite by every account, would go to foster care.

Leon was placed in a foster home six blocks away with Arthur and Urville Wheeler. The Wheelers had six children of their own, but housed as many as 10 additional kids. They were church people. "Jimi was at our house more than he was at his dad's," recalled Doug Wheeler, one of the Wheeler sons. "A lot of times Jimi would spend the night, so he could have breakfast before going to school. Otherwise, he might not have anything to eat."

That fall, at Al's urging, Jimi turned out for junior football. His coach was Booth Gardner, who decades later would become Washington's governor. "He was no athlete," Gardner recalled. "He wasn't good enough to start; to tell the truth, he really wasn't good enough to play." Gardner felt sorry for Jimi and saw that the poverty in the family home was severe. One day Gardner stopped by and found Jimi sitting alone in the dark. "The power had been turned off," Gardner recalled.

When he wasn't playing football, Jimi roamed the neighborhood at all hours with little supervision. He soon knew every musician around, simply by listening by the sounds of their rehearsals. He'd hear music coming from a house, and as a curious boy, he'd simply knock on the door.

In 1956, during the first half of a year at Washington Junior High, Jimi earned one B, seven C's and one D. In the second half of the year, he had three C's, four D's and two F's. Jimi would have started eighth grade were it not for further problems at home. The bank repossessed their house, and Jimi and Al moved to a boarding house run by a Mrs. McKay. As a result, Jimi had to switch schools.

Jimi wouldn't finish high school. And after getting caught for driving two stolen cars would be faced with either two years in jail or the army. He chose the army. And he brought a guitar from his father with him.

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So far, BitStar Exchange has always been adhering to the purpose of serving customers and reassuring customers. A 24-hour manual customer service center has been specially set up. You can apply for USDT exchange online 24 hours a day, saying goodbye to long waiting times at merchants and removing offline transaction risks. The platform connects with three-party organizations, provides the platform with customers, and the platform with merchants, for quick matching and quick exchange.

BitStar is reconstructing digital asset ownership and inter-blockchain transaction methods for a multi-chain world, and adopting a brand-new transaction method to bring liquidity and capital efficiency to the blockchain economy. And it is committed to creating a low-risk and controllable transaction mode and a safe and stable transaction terminal service for cryptocurrency enthusiasts.

In more than two years of development, Bitstar has risen rapidly, with contract trading branches in more than 30 countries and regions around the world, and core offices in Asia, Australia, New Zealand and other places to provide encryption services to more people. For over 60 countries. Digital currency trading services and project investment incubation business, with more than 3 million individual users and more than 10,000 core institutional users, and are in a continuous growth trend.

Bitstar was born for the global exchange. The goal is to build one of the industry's top digital exchanges, lead the digital currency trading platform market, and become the industry benchmark. Let the world pay attention to us!

Bitstar Capital Group Co., Ltd.

Official Site: http://www.BitStarm.com

Company number: 1082578-6

Commercial number: 745083717RC0001

Member Association: Vancouver Crypto Assets Trading Association

Research Institution: Canadian Market Research Institute

Contact: Kelly Bridge (The person in charge can check on the official website)

Company: Bitstar Capital Group INC. (available on the official website)

Email: vcbitstar@bitstarn.com (company email address)

City: Vancouver, Canada

Address: 1275 W 6th Ave, Suite 300 Vancouver BC V6H 1A6 Canada

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Gambling in the USA is a legal aspect that comes up regularly. With federal government regulations that conflict with state issuances, space can often be gray about which areas can service on the web gambling and which are not able to. This means that gambling with cryptocurrency, the most recent trend in investment and transaction concepts, is also a muddied matter.

Bitcoin is definitely the first and the most popular decentralized currency which allows users to make rapid, anonymous transactions. Although gambling with traditional currency has already been complicated enough in the USA, putting in this volatile BTC or other gambling tokens into the mix increases concerns.

Legislation Bitcoin remains to be hung all the way up in Congress; that’s, cryptocurrency is most not at all illegitimate. But on the other hand, in the USA, Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are certainly not acknowledged as legal tender. They are simply technically described as merchandise. This means that government entities need virtual coins to be verified and authorized inside the country’s database.

As being a commodity or security, government entities have got to the right capture taxes right from a person who earnings from BTC. Investors and traders alike are actually by law obligated to fork over a large amount of their revenue to Uncle Sam-if you gamble with Bitcoin and earn, the pertains to you as well. Although this topic is fast-paced, the consensus is the fact that Bitcoin is currently legal in the states and controlled to the point of taxes.

In the event that online gambling with fiat cash is announced legal in your country, then is considered more than likely that gambling with Bitcoin is eligible as well. Here is a glance at a few of the most on the web gambling and bitcoin-friendly countries around the world to this point.

Bitcoin Gambling Legality in Australia

On the web gambling status: Friendly

Bitcoin status: Extremely friendly

It’s legal for residents in Australia to gamble on the web, however, it is illegal for gambling providers to give their services from within the country. This means that on the web casinos operating in legal jurisdictions have to offer solutions to gamers in Australia.

The Australian authorities are all for the use of cryptocurrencies – when it is properly regulated for the safety of its residents in addition to systems in place to avoid money laundering. Within the topic of Bitcoin, in particular, the governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia has left a comment that using Bitcoin is absolutely legal, adding there’s basically no legislation to prevent that.

Bitcoin Gambling Legality in Canada

On the web gambling status: Friendly

Bitcoin status: Extremely friendly

Just like Australia, Canada allows its citizens to gamble on the web, but, it prohibits gaming that is provided by a company that is not owned or operated, or certified by provincial authorities. In regards to Bitcoin use, in particular, it seems the Canadian authorities have made no formal restriction relating to the cryptocurrencies’ use.

A light limitation is a positive gain for Bitcoin users as Canada was the first of all nations across the world to pass regulation surrounding Bitcoin, they appear to have to lead the way for including approaches to protect users while permitting the cryptocurrency to prosper. More and more top-ranking Canadian casinos approve transactions in bitcoins. During 2013 the first Bitcoin ATM was mounted in Vancouver and now there are about 205 bitcoin ATMs r and tellers through Canada, with Toronto and as well, Vancouver called the Bitcoin hubs.

In conclusion, for those who are gambling on the web in Canada with Bitcoin, you’re not controlled by any regulation, unless you are an on the web gambling merchant or Bitcoin broker.

Bitcoin Gambling Legality in the UK

On the web gambling status: Regulated, friendly

Bitcoin status: Extremely friendly

It’s legal to gamble on the web in England, provided that the gaming provider has employed for and has been lately awarded a UK Gambling Commission payment (UKGC) issued Remote Gaming Permit. Since August 2016, the UKGC legally gave great Britain licensed on the web casinos permission to simply accept bitcoin as a deposit and cash out medium.

To decrease incidents of money laundering, also because of bitcoin’s huge impact on web gambling’s popularity, the Bank of England continues to be keeping its eye on Bitcoin technology and improvements, also requesting residents to share thoughts on approaches to enhance its monetary system.

In England, Bitcoin is recognized as “private money” and VALUE-ADDED TAX is applied as regular. All trading exchanges for goods and services that approve Bitcoin and various other cryptocurrencies happen to be taxed.

Bitcoin Gambling Legality in France

On the web gambling status: Regulated, friendly

Bitcoin situation: Friendly

From the advent of the roulette wheel to the initial variant of baccarat, France contributes to the birth of many of these forms of gambling we use at the moment. Nevertheless, any kind of form of gambling in France needs a permit, although the regulations are not in particular strict – authorities that monitor gambling do so essential in order to keep French citizens from getting addicted.

Bottom line

Generally speaking, Bitcoin gambling is eligible since it is not targeted as a specific illegal endeavor. Due to differing laws by state, you should reflect on two things: if Internet gambling is limited where you reside, and if Bitcoin is limited as a payment solution within your state. All states can easily bet international on approved ınternet sites; which is a current afforded.

But states that complicate virtual currency could doubtless slap you with legal action if they need licenses to transact with Bitcoin. A state just like Connecticut may construe depositing Bitcoin into a gambling shop account to be selling your cryptocurrency and as well, slap you with a fine for doing this without a certificate.

Action against virtual currency fanatics is essentially unheard of this way, most importantly amongst the gambling realm. As long as you do your research, pay taxes, and do not knowingly break state legislation, Bitcoin Gambling is safe.

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It is very difficult to adequately describe Al Hubbard; his biography reads like a script for a Hollywood action movie.

In 1919, when he was not yet twenty years old, Hubbard—allegedly guided by otherworldly forces—invented the Hubbard Energy Transformer. It was a battery that allegedly drew energy directly from a radioactive ore; its technology could not be explained by the science of the day. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer reported that Hubbard’s invention, hidden in a small box (11” x 14”), had powered a ferry-sized vessel around Seattle’s Portico Bay nonstop for three days. Hubbard sold fifty percent of the patent to the Radium Corporation of Pittsburg for $75,000.

The list of his affiliations and jobs is extraordinary. At various times he worked for the Canadian Special Services; the United States Justice Department; the United States Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives; the Office of Strategic Services; and allegedly also for the CIA. During prohibition, he had a job as a Seattle taxi driver. With a sophisticated ship-to-shore communication system hidden in the trunk of his cab, he helped rum-runners successfully ferry booze past the U.S. and Canadian Coast Guards. He was proclaimed the “Bootleg King of the Northwest,” then was caught by the FBI, and went to prison for eighteen months. For a short time, he also held a job as janitor at the Stanford Research Institute in California.

In his early forties, Hubbard realized his lifelong ambition of becoming a millionaire. By 1950, he was the scientific director of the Uranium Corporation of Vancouver, owned his own fleet of aircraft, a 100-foot yacht, and Dayman Island on Vancouver Bay. His nickname “Captain Hubbard” came from his Master of Sea Vessels certification and a stint in the U.S. Merchant Marine Institute. He also had another nickname, “Johnny Appleseed of LSD,” because he gave LSD to an estimated 6,000 people, including scientists, politicians, intelligence officials, diplomats, and church figures.

According to his friends, he was able to hold naked wires from a 120 volt socket, encouraging them to do the same. When they got shocked, he gave them the advice: “You cannot fight electricity, you have to go with it.”

-- Stanislav Grof, The Way of the Psychonaut, vol. 2

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A Vancouver woman is sounding the alarm for millions of Canadians who have credit and debit cards, after information about her debit card was shared when it shouldn't have been.

Vanessa Acu��a blames an "updating service" that some credit and debit card companies have that allows new account numbers and expiry dates to be shared with merchants customers have dealt with in the past.

Information about the sharing of this kind of information with third party companies is often buried in the fine print of bank and credit card agreements.

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1987 RNZAF Bristol Freighter NZ5913 (ex ZK-CLT) with the engines off NZ5903 at Wigram Museum 4 Jun 1987 by Gary Danvers Collection Via Flickr: Construction No: 13157 Registrations: G18-149, S4404, ZK-CLT, NZ5913, ZK-CLT, C-FTPA Constructed as a Freighter 31E. Allocated G18-149 to Bristol Aeroplane Company 22 Dec 1953 and was allotted to the Royal Pakistan Air Force as S4404 on 22 Dec 1953. Delivered to Royal Pakistan Air Force during 1954. S4404 was sold to SAFE, NZ 24 Aug 65 . Registered as ZK-CLT on 1 Jun 1965. Delivered to Auckland 24 Aug 1965. Entered service 17 Dec 1965 named 'Merchant Hauler'. Ownership was transferred to Safe Air Ltd. 31 Oct 1967. ZK-CLT was one of the Freighters that were fitted out for the passenger capsule flights to Chatham Islands. ZK-CLT and ZK-CRK were the only two SAFE AIR Freighters that retained their fuselage windows for that purpose. The Safe Air Freighters had a long history of flying out of Christchurch to the Chathams Islands with a mixture of passengers and cargo, a flight of approximately 3½ hours. 14 Jan 1981 SAFE Air Bristol Freighter ZK-CAM suffered an undercarriage failure on landing. The rear fuselage was later used in a rebuild of ZK-CLT. Withdrawn from service with Safe Air Ltd 23 Sep 1986 with 19,022 hours and 18,720 landings. Used in the Disney production, 'The Rescue' in 1986. www.flickr.com/photos/gcdnz/32523003374/in/album-72157680... It was then passed on to the RNZAF Museum and on 21 May 1987 flown to Wigram bearing the serial NZ5913. The aircraft could not fly as a civil aircraft unless the engines were overhauled - but it could under military registration. On arrival at Wigram, the engines were exchanged with the Museum's NZ5903. See next photo. A proposed swap with Canadian War Heritage Museum for a Bolingbroke did not eventuate and NZ5913 was then flown back to Woodbourne on 25 Jun 1988 for an overhaul at Safe Air prior to being placed back on the civil register as ZK-CLT on 25 Jul 1988. Jul 1988. Apparently negotiations to sell ZK-EPC (ex NZ5906) to Trans Provincial Airlines Ltd., Canada resulted in it being replaced by ZK-CLT. It left Auckland for Canada on 7 Oct 1989 and the registration was cancelled (for the second time) 12 Jan 1990. The departure of this aircraft marked the last B170 Freighter flight in NZ skies. On arrival in Canada the Freighter was registered as C-FTPA with Trans Provincial Airlines from 6 Jul 1990. It was re-engined with Hercules 265 engines. It operated from Prince Rupert on oil support operations with two other Freighters until the company ceased trading in 1993. Ownership moved to MRS 4000 Investments Ltd., a consortium of British Airways pilots in Vancouver, BC. It was refurbished by Hawkair at Terrace B.C., and leased to that company July 1994 and again used for mining support. Movie of this aircraft flying in Canada, 1992-1994... www.youtube.com/watch?v=iza0UrW2ca0 C-FTPA crashed at Bronson Creek 24 Apr 1997 after a flight from Wrangell Municipal Airport. On landing the aircraft ground looped, the starboard undercarriage failed and the aircraft ran off the runway into a ditch. Failure of bolts or a weld on the starboard undercarriage strut was suspected. It was stripped of usable parts and the fuselage left at Bronson Creek. Map of Bronson Creek: aviation-safety.net/database/airport/airport.php?id=YBM Sources: Australian Defence Force Serials www.adf-serials.com.au/nz-serials/nzbristolfreighter.htm Kiwi Aircraft Images www.kiwiaircraftimages.com/b170list.html Aviation Safety aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19970424-0 NZ Civil Aircraft nzcivair.blogspot.com/2011/06/pics-from-gisborne-3.html Click here to email Gary if you have details to add to this photo.