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● 11.20.10

●● Seattle Times Uses Copyright Law for Censorship, to Defend Steve Ballmer

Posted in Marketing, Microsoft, Steve Ballmer at 5:50 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

Summary: Another fine example of copyright being misused to suppress free speech and the Seattle Times acting as though it’s Microsoft’s PR department redressed to look like “official” and “professional” news

THE RATHER appalling ‘newspaper’ called Seattle Times is more of a propaganda tool for the Gates Foundation and for Microsoft, which is taking Seattle Times staff out for meals and briefs reporters so that they just print Microsoft’s spin. We have posted many examples before (almost a hundred in the past year alone), so we are not going to post more examples. They are just a small subset and they can be found in our archives.

=> ↺ Gates Foundation

The latest blunder from the Seattle Times is that they had an image removed from a competitor’s site. They are attacking fair use (humour purposes) to defend an unethical bully, Steve Ballmer. This only contributes to our negative characterisation of the the Seattle Times, which is not news; it’s corporate press and it’s in the pocket of companies that include Microsoft.

Luckily, after or just before the Seattle Times helped censor Engadget’s work, many people in the comments created other, derivative images (which the Seattle Times has not formally complained about) and we include all of them below in the interests of freedom of speech. █

=> ↺ censor Engadget’s work

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