____/ [H]omer on Sunday 03 February 2008 17:59 : \____
> Verily I say unto thee, that Roy Schestowitz spake thusly:
>
>> News Corp. Scrambles To Bid For Yahoo
>
> Gah! In balance, I think that may actually be worse than Microsoft
> buying Yahoo!. At least in Microsoft's case, all they want is more
> revenue (albeit by strengthening their monopoly), but Murdoch is a
> different animal. Yes he's also trying to build a monopoly, but in
> this case it's about more than just money, it's also about him mis
> -using yet another media outlet, to spread the disease of his vile
> right-wing extremist ideologies. Although it could be argued that
> Microsoft does the same thing, in a less obvious way (using shills
> and lobbyists).
Just days ago, other Murdoch shills were exposed (Freudian slip in the subject
by the way... because I spelled it like Ian's... never made this typo before
if you check the archives... anyhoo):
Times Online denies knowledge of link spam campaign
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| Piotr Wyspianski, a manager at Sitelynx, was revealed on the Waxy.org blog to
| have waged a one-man campaign to game web aggregation communities such as
| Digg, Metafilter and StumbleUpon with over a thousand links to Times Online
| stories. Before working for Sitelynx, he had form for a similar astroturfing
| effort for his own online jewellery store.
|
| Predictably, the Waxy.org story has hit the front page of Digg and some
| Diggers have piled in to condemn Times Online, blaming a conspiracy by the
| original Digger himself. "I haven't respected The Times since Murdoch bought
| it, since that effectively means I can no longer trust its content. Fuck you
| old man!" wrote one.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/01/31/times_online_link_spam/
> It's bad enough that the Bancrofts failed to shield Dow Jones from
> Murdoch's menacing advances, but now this...
>
> At this rate, there won't be any impartial professional journalism
> left. The voice of democracy and reason will be restricted to just
> amateur blogs (dissidents), whilst the official "news" degenerates
> even further into the role of a propaganda machine, spreading vile
> fascist indoctrination. With the ultimate demise of Net Neutrality
> even those dissident voices could be suppressed and censored.
>
> I find it curious that so much resources and effort is invested in
> trying to cure diseases like cancer and AIDS, but few seem to care
> about the worst and most destructive disease of all - fascism. But
> then again that may be because dead men don't pay taxes ... or buy
> goods and services from companies like Microsoft and News Corp, so
> saving lives amounts to little more than an "investment", whereas
> saving society from the disease of fascism just isn't "profitable"
> enough for those few who actually have the /power/ to do something
> about it. Apathy, ignorance and impotence takes care of the rest.
Well, the least one can do is bring these issues to light. As RMS says (not a
quote), you can make more difference if you get more people to join your
cause. The capacity you have for making change as a single mind that is aware
of the problem is very limited.
--
~~ Best of wishes
"The government is not trying to destroy Microsoft, it’s simply seeking to
compel Microsoft to obey the law. It’s quite revealing that Mr. Gates equates
the two."
--Government official
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