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HP Products Are Faulty and They Try to Censor Evidence of the Defects

Summary: HP seems to be operating a censorship army in social control media, working to hide evidence of HP products having severe and chronic problems

Over the past hour I've not managed to get anything done as my laptop is failing. It's not an old laptop, either. But this is typical HP!

Minutes ago I posted (though I can barely type): "Avoid HP keyboards or any HP device that has a key on it. Only on HP devices (3 in a row!) I always have keyboard issues. Keys stop working. This flimsy crap is not acceptable! Never again! Never HP!! Now my MAIN laptop. AGAIN."

Watch what happened next (within a few minutes):

hp-censorship

It has gotten worse since. So I wrote (after the latest message above): "Over the past hour I went from 2 defective HP keyboard keys to 3 and now 4. Not even connected keys, quite far apart. This shit is coming apart. #HP now trying to censor me. (!!)"

I will update this post as this blunder progresses. I should note that I never had any such issue with any other brand of laptop (we have 5 laptops working at work, only one is HP).

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