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● 02.14.14

●● Boycott of Slashdot is Protesting Against Dice Policies

Posted in Action at 7:33 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz

Summary: A Slashdot boycott is happening this week because Dice is asked to stop messing about with Slashdot

The new owner of Slashdot has been treating the Slashdot community like an enemy. People hate what’s being done to the interface and some are disgusted by the editorial choices. While I no longer read Slashdot myself, several people in our IRC channels (and our IRC bots) are following Slashdot. They say that the FOSS-hostile bias is increasing (we wrote about that yesterday) and Microsoft lobbyists regularly get placements there. A site called Slashcott says that boycotts against the site began some days ago and will last for at least a week in order to demonstrate to Slashdot’s owner that a Slashdot without community is just another Web site on the Web. Some of our readers have said that they are running out of FOSS-friendly sites that they can visit. █

=> ↺ Slashdot | ↺ hate what’s being done to the interface | we wrote about that yesterday | ↺ Slashcott

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