Bonum Certa Men Certa

Dishonest Corporations -- Like Smug Politicians -- Pretend to be Something They're Not

Pandering Politicians: Microsoft is green, Apple values your privacy, IBM does #TechForGood



Summary: Corporate lies dominate the media, having been crafted by unethical marketing departments with their photo ops and hashtags

QUICK! Name a company that openly says (or whose Web site states) it doesn't value your privacy! Oh, even Facebook says it is about privacy. Name a company that says it pollutes... anyone? Anyone? Going once, going twice...



"They'll work harder to control the psyche or the narrative, telling us stuff as ridiculous as morality being the censorship of mere words (even rather innocent and innocuous words, by taking them out of context)."The matter of fact is, corporations shamelessly lie about what they really are and about what they do.

Every week or every number of days IBM tells us that it does #TechForGood (typically some greenwashing, openwashing, disaster recovery and so on; screenshot below), but look no further than IBM's past and present (not what press releases say). Sooner or later they reach the point of lying with sincerity; many employees come to believe the employer's lies. And perhaps that's the whole point -- misleading employees and clients by sending out messages contrary to truth itself. That leads to contradiction and thus confusion, uncertainty.

IBM deception tacticsEnter Free software.

As the Debian mantra goes, they "won't hide problems..."*

And we don't. We talk about those things.

Sure, there are censorship and suppression attempts, but those tend to backfire. Recently we wrote a great deal about Debian, having already published about 100 articles about IBM (earlier on throughout the summer).

Having honest discussions based on pertinent facts isn't always "easy" or "fun"; the world isn't always a pretty place and technology tends to become more aggressive as regimes become more oppressive (creating a demand for such technology). It's hardly surprising that Google and Microsoft spread their money around, seeking Public Relations and suppression of critics (censorship). Expect more and more of that as their work (so-called 'technology') becomes increasingly malicious. They'll work harder to control the psyche or the narrative, telling us stuff as ridiculous as morality being the censorship of mere words (even rather innocent and innocuous words, by taking them out of context).

Techrights is a site that values truth, not convenient illusions and corporate/political pandering. That's why many people read and trust Techrights. Truth is becoming a rarity because it is defunded. The Big Money is in deception; ask the Linux Foundation. This past week it spent a lot of resources openwashing IBM's mainframes (as if sticking the word "open" in front of things magically makes them ethical). _____ * The Debian Social Contract says: 1. Debian Will Remain 100% Free Software; 2. We Will Give Back to the Free Software Community; 3. We Won't Hide Problems; 4 Our Priorities are Our Users and Free Software...

Recent Techrights' Posts

Abuse Inside the Polish Patent Office (UPRP) - Part VII: Washing Their Hands After Corruption and Abuse
"Tragedy or comedy?"
Culling Bad RSS Feeds of Bad Sites
Not throwing out the baby with the bathwater
Live as You Preach
technology is fast becoming dysphoric
Computers Got Smaller, So GNU/Linux Got Bigger
Many people here recognise the lack of urgency (or need) to get expensive new laptops
 
Links 10/06/2025: Jaws at 50 and US Democracy Crushed Very Rapidly (Martial Law Seems Imminent)
Links for the day
If 'Microsoft v Techrights' is Dealt With by a 'Microsoft Court' (or a Court Outsourced to Microsoft)
More on that later
Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Monday, June 09, 2025
IRC logs for Monday, June 09, 2025
Gemini Protocol Turns Six in 10 Days From Now
If you haven't tried it yet, then give it a go today
Gemini Links 09/06/2025: Addition Addiction and Nitride
Links for the day
Links 09/06/2025: Science, Hardware Projects, and Democracy Receding
Links for the day
BetaNews is a Plagiarism and LLM Slop Hub, the Chief Editor Isn't Addressing This Problem Anymore
SS Fagioli is basically a parasite leeching off or exploiting other people's work
Links 09/06/2025: Chaos in Los Angeles and Hurricane Season
Links for the day
GNU/Linux Grows at Windows' Expense and Microsoft Trolls Infest and Maliciously Target Articles About It
Microsoft is - and has long been - organised crime
They Say I'm Mr. Bombastic
They didn't take good lawyers
Links 09/06/2025: Windows TCO and Many Data Breaches
Links for the day
Abuse Inside the Polish Patent Office (UPRP) - Part VI: Political Stunts by Former President Edyta Demby-Siwek and the Connection to Profound Corruption at EUIPO
it's like a money-laundering operation where one politician rewards another at taxpayers' expense
Gemini Links 09/06/2025: Pipelines and Splitgate
Links for the day
Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Sunday, June 08, 2025
IRC logs for Sunday, June 08, 2025
Links 08/06/2025: Tiananmen Carnage Censorship Persists, North Korean Goes Offline
Links for the day
Gemini Links 08/06/2025: Love as an Ethnographic Method and Monitorix Gemini-Frontend v0.1
Links for the day
Links 08/06/2025: Exposure of More GAFAM Surveillance and Social Security Records Compromised
Links for the day
Linux Foundation is a Mediator for Microsoft et al, Not for Small Companies That Support Rather Than Attack the GPL
Many people still wrongly assume that because it is called "Linux Foundation", then it is pro-Linux and represents the same mindset
This Past Friday, Confirming What We Said All Along About Brett Wilson LLP: It's Shrinking, Has Considerable Debt, Loss of Net Assets Despite the Microsoft SLAPP Money
The documents only became publicly available less than 2 days ago
Some of the Many Reasons We Sued Microsofters for Harassment
perpetrators of harassment
For 20 Years Many People Were Sharecropping for Canonical's Oligarch, Now He's Deleting All Their Contributions
"Ubuntu has erased instead of archiving the trove of material at Ubuntu Forums"
There Was Always Too Much 'Crazy Stuff' Going on Around Freenode
What many IRC users lost sight of
Exposing Crime is Not a Crime (It Never Was)
In the eyes of rich and powerful people, those who speak about their crimes are the "criminals"
GNU/Linux Distros Abandoning Microsoft GitHub
Will curl be next to leave Microsoft GitHub?
Expect More XBox Mass Layoffs Soon If the Rumours Are True
From a Microsoft media operative
Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Saturday, June 07, 2025
IRC logs for Saturday, June 07, 2025
Europe Needs to Move Away From GAFAM; The Sooner, the Better
Europe - not just the EU - must abandon GAFAM as soon as possible
The Issue Isn't GNOME's Promotion of Diversity But GNOME Corruption, Abuse, Censorship, and Worse
So-called "Conservative" (republican, pro-Trump, bigoted) people want you to think the problem with GNOME is politics
When the News Sources Become Scarce and Increasingly Full of Polluted/Contaminated 'Content' (With LLM Slop and Slop Images)
Integrity matters
"Linux" Sites That Spew Out LLM Slop
We're lacking enough material for another "Slopwatch"
Abuse Inside the Polish Patent Office (UPRP) - Part V: Breaking the Law, Just Like EPO
We'll hopefully cover some of the pertinent details later this year