Shady businesses, you’re on notice. This robot lawyer is coming after you if you play dirty.

Amazon, Facebook, Netflix and a host of other tech giants will join with online activists, librarians, minority rights and free speech groups today in a day of protest against the Trump administration’s plans to roll back rules in what critics charge is a “war on the open internet”.

Depending on what decade you were born in, the term “sales” can evoke different images. Some may flash immediately to the grey-suited salesman, briefcase in hand, knocking on doors trying to stir up leads.