I find the amount of money in these cases so staggeringly high that I can't imagine that a vast portion of 'those in power' are not complicit in some ways. There is simply no way to mix this amount of money back into the system without lots of people of statute being involved.
I've been developing in go/node/python on a headless 1cpu 512mb 20gb vultr instance. Tmux, vim, w3m and weechat. I use mosh and firefox from a laptop/desktop/phone/tablet and never had any issues. It does prevent me from writing rust though.
I think they require some 'independent' source of information, like news articles. I'm quite surprised by the comments on this article. McDonald's didn't present their case properly while that should have been easy. Seems the onus is on them, regardless they still have their appeal.
Vim is my main editor, my main gripe is that it performs terribly (without any plugins) with either relative numbers, cursor line or syntax highlighting in files larger than 200 lines.
Out of interest in this I made Https://linksforreddit.com. You can view who links to certain articles. I backed up and truncated the 2017 data because the VPS ran out of space but there where and are interesting patterns. Nothing proof like but the same pdfs sometimes get linked close to a hundred times by similar themed and structured essays but textually different comments.