Policy on Guy Freeman

The Velotix Files, Part 4: The Takedown

Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The Notice

On 18 May 2026 at 19:43 UTC — fifty-nine days after Part 1 was published — Cloudflare’s Trust & Safety team forwarded a DMCA copyright infringement complaint to the abuse address registered on the account that fronts this site. It claimed that the URL

https://gfrm.in/posts/velotix-investigation/

infringed the copyright of themarker.com, the Israeli business daily owned by the Haaretz Group.

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The Velotix Files, Part 3: The Marketing Machine

Sun, 22 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The Plumbing

When Israeli retail investors encountered advertisements for the Velotix angel round in January 2026, they saw what appeared to be independent coverage across multiple platforms. In reality, the entire campaign was a single pipe with many outlets.

The pipe was PipelBiz (פיפלביז), an equity crowdfunding platform founded in 2015 in Netanya. PipelBiz holds a licence from the Israel Securities Authority as a רכז הצעה — an “offer coordinator” — making it the first such entity in Israel. Under the Securities Regulations (Offering Securities Through Offer Coordinator), 2017, an offer coordinator must, among other obligations, “take measures to prevent securities fraud as much as possible” (ינקוט באמצעים כדי למנוע ככל האפשר תרמית בניירות ערך).

On Owning Your Data

Wed, 31 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000

I step on a bathroom scale and my body fat percentage gets beamed to a server in Shenzhen. This is the arrangement. In exchange for this intimacy, the app suggests I upgrade to premium, which I find touching in a way the developers probably didn’t intend.

I don’t have a problem with companies making money — I have a problem with the default. The default is: your body’s measurements belong to someone else’s database, and you’re welcome to look at them through their app, on their terms, until they pivot to a different business model or get acqui-hired and shut down the API. The data isn’t especially sensitive on its own. Nobody is going to blackmail me with my impedance readings. But if I can’t own the numbers that describe my own physical form, what exactly can I own? It’s a question worth asking, even if the answer turns out to be “not much, but you should try anyway.”