This page permanently redirects to gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2023/08/11/world-wide-web-of-lies/.
Gemini version available ♊︎
Posted in Deception, GNU/Linux, Microsoft at 4:28 am by Dr. Roy Schestowitz
Image: Open up for Elop
Summary: The World Wide Web has a severe SEO/SPAM issue; at the moment we’re seeing a rapid transition on the World Wide Web from actual information (even whatever was published decades ago!) to get-rich-fast schemes along with disinformation
THE latest Daily Links contained examples of articles about CNET because, as we've just noted again, articles critical of Microsoft are being removed from the site (we spotted several already, e.g. coverage regarding this scandal). To put it bluntly, in today’s World Wide Web not only do many sites go offline; some actively replace broadly-cited journalism with spam, lies, misinformation, and blank pages. CNET — like its sister site ZDNet — has been owned by a marketing company (Red Ventures) for several years already.
=> CNET | we've just noted again | this scandal | ZDNet
“To put it bluntly, in today’s World Wide Web not only do many sites go offline; some actively replace broadly-cited journalism with spam, lies, misinformation, and blank pages.”
This is an example of entryism or malicious takeover. Why are there no regulations in place to prevent that? As a reader recently reminded us, seeing that there are lies abound regarding what happened to Nokia, there are no “fact checkers” on the matter. Worse yet, come to think of it, no one on Nokia’s Board of Directors (BoD) went to jail despite how they set the company up for Microsoft’s Elop.
=> ↺ lies abound | Nokia
And sure, killing of things has a business model too, but few benefit from it (there’s a conflict of interest in the Board). There may have been a legal obligation to not harm Nokia, which the BoD violated by writing a special contract for Microsoft’s Elop and lying about it and the content of that contract.
“There are many other abundant lies in “the media”, including the supposed “success” of Azure, which is actually accounting fraud.”
There are still articles about what happened [1, 2], but how long for? Somewhere there are some links about how the Linux-based phones were getting better reviews than the iPhone. But those got buried a few days later in the “burning platform” memo hype.
There are many other abundant lies in “the media”, including the supposed “success” of Azure, which is actually accounting fraud. Yes, indeed, one poor redaction exposed their lies about Azure. There is certainly more like that waiting to be found. Like in the now-defunct Dilbert cartoon where the PHB was bragging to a potential customer about record profits, having gotten briefly disoriented. █
=> supposed | actually accounting fraud
Share in other sites/networks: These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages.
Permalink > Image: Mail
Send this to a friend
=> Permalink | ↺ Send this to a friend
=> Techrights
➮ Sharing is caring. Content is available under CC-BY-SA.
text/gemini;lang=en-GBThis content has been proxied by September (ba2dc).