10.27.10
Gemini version available ♊︎Urban Dictionary Defines Mobbyists
Summary: Tactics which show us that monopolistic technology companies like Microsoft are rotten to the core just like oil giants that sponsor a denial of man-made or man-accelerated global heating
The term “mobbyist” is defined by urbandictionary.com as: “lemmings, typically uneducated, who try to influence public policy on behalf of a special interest by acting as shit disturbers at town halls or other public events. Mobbyists appear to represent grassroots concerns but in reality are astroturf foot soldiers.”
The convenient thing about this term is that it sounds like a fusion of the words “Microsoft” and “lobbyist”. Mobbyists can be compared to extremists used by corporate interests of the far right. To name the example from urbandictionary.com, “The town hall on healthcare was disrupted by a small fringe group when mobbyists arrived on a bus from teabagger headquarters and kept screaming “SOCIALIST!” everytime Congressman Smith attempted to answer a question.”
“It’s one thing for an individual to criticise a massive corporation, but another thing for massive corporations to attempt it against mere individuals.”We started using the word mobbyists after the FFII had used it and our previous post hopefully shed light on some of the intimidation that comes from mobbyists even if Techrights rarely talks about it. Challenging a large and unethical corporation like Microsoft is impossible without some sort of retaliation (we’ve heard that the same applies to IBM), as many people learned the hard way.
If your character, Web site, other works or company has been vilified by Microsoft or by mobbyists, we kindly ask you to let us know because we are building an index of examples. People who are targeted by Microsoft love to discover that they are not alone and there is always the possibility of class action lawsuits. It’s one thing for an individual to criticise a massive corporation, but another thing for massive corporations to attempt it against mere individuals. Amorphous companies have no rights, individuals do. █
“I have lost my sleep and peace of mind for last two months over these distasteful activities by Microsoft.”
PS – the picture at the top is of Christine O’Donell, one of the Tea Party symbols who said outrageous things like:
1. “American scientific companies are cross-breeding humans and animals and coming up with mice with fully functioning human brains.”
2. “God may choose to heal someone from cancer, yet that person still has a great deal of medical bills. The outstanding bills do not determine whether or not the patient has been healed by God.”
3. “I dabbled into witchcraft. I never joined a coven.” / “One of my first dates with a witch was on a satanic altar.”
4. “We took the Bible and prayer out of public schools. Now we’re having weekly shootings. We had the 60s sexual revolution, and now people are dying of AIDS.”
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