UPC Fake News Watch (and Tough Reality): Same Familiar Talking Points and Talking Heads
- Dr. Roy Schestowitz
- 2022-05-02 01:28:59 UTC
- Modified: 2022-05-02 01:28:59 UTC
Summary: We take stock of the most recent propaganda from Team UPC; notice how there's not even one single case of objective journalism on the matter (we've searched and tracked this very closely), it's just a bunch of law firms (patent litigation profiteers) and their operatives -- in sites like JUVE -- quoting them
Recent Techrights' Posts
- SLAPP Censorship - Part 64 Out of 200: Not Amused by Repeated Threats (to "Shut Down" My "Existence" While Mentioning My Wife Too)
- it's about censorship
- The NHS is Under Attack by Anthropic and Microsoft (or Their Lemmings That Infect the NHS)
- They are kidding themselves if they seriously believe Web-facing source code repositories are the real threat to patients
- cPanel is Not Linux, cPanel is Proprietary Software
- It's fair to say I've used cPanel for 23 years
- Storage and Memory Prices Are Rising Not Because of High Demand (Production Can Match Demand), It's Partly Because of Price-Fixing (Same as Food Price Increases)
- Sophisticated robberies are still robberies
- Thousands of Layoffs at IBM, So IBM Pays Mainstream Media to Claim That IBM is Hiring (Paid Lies)
- This is a story about the media failing us, not just IBM failing as a company
- A Look at DataStax Bluewashing (IBM and Layoffs)
- IBM is a place that many people leave or get pushed out of
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- All-Time Lows for Windows in Spain and Portugal
- data which became publicly available less than 24 hours ago in statCounter
- The Corrupt Lecture the Non-Corrupt - Part XI - EPO 'Products' to Cement Asian and American Monopolies
- Only a fool would believe Lame Duck Campinos
- Microsoft Windows Falls Below 9% in South Africa
- As one can expect, GNU/Linux is measured as going up in France
- Gemini Links 03/05/2026: The Black Side of the Web, LiveJournal, Chimarrão
- Links for the day
- A Month Since Mass Layoffs at Red Hat (400+ Engineers Laid Off), The Media Didn't Cover It
- We are very concerned about the state of the media
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Saturday, May 02, 2026
- IRC logs for Saturday, May 02, 2026
- Gemini Links 02/05/2026: Strange Psychosis and TUIs
- Links for the day
- Links 02/05/2026: Microsoft Has Begun Rebranding Vista 11 as 'XBox' (Because the Console is Dying), Slop Rejected by Oscars
- Links for the day
- IBM's CEO 10 Years Ago in IBM-Sponsored Forbes: "For those willing to embrace [blockchains], the future will indeed be bright."
- How well did this prediction materialise?
- RightsCon Cancellation as a Data Point in a World Gone Astray
- RightsCon should not even be controversial
- Links 02/05/2026: Gen Z is Turning Against Slop and OpenAI/Microsoft Rift Explained
- Links for the day
- Gemini Links 02/05/2026: Leaving Session, Alhena 5.5.7, and Slop Failing Customers
- Links for the day
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Friday, May 01, 2026
- IRC logs for Friday, May 01, 2026
- Links 01/05/2026: Microsoft 'Headcount' Decreasing, Apple Quietly Killing Vision Pro
- Links for the day
- Oracle's Debt Grew by Over 50 Billion Dollars in 6 Months
- Larry Ellison spent a lot of money buying a lot of the corporate media
- In Praise of Debian
- 30 hours ago we began an upgrade
- What Linus (Torvalds, the Linux Dude) Meant by "Show Me the Code"
- "Show Me the Code" is a common cultural reference
- Yes, GNU/Linux Can Run on Playstation 5, But Don't Buy It, Learn From Sony's Past of Rootkit and PS3 Betrayal
- Millions of Playstation 3 owners will never forget what Sony did to them
- XBox Will Not Last Much Longer, XBox Chief Admits Problems
- Microsoft's latest "results"
- Dealing With Demagogue in Free Software
- Don't spread their ideology and never participate in any of their projects
- What May 1 Means to Us (and to Many Others)
- To me, May 1 means something
- Microsoft Lunduke is 'Pulling a Garrett' by Turning Technical and Legal Debate Over Rust Into a 'Trans Debate'
- Don't fall for the demagogue
- Links 01/05/2026: Regulatory Trouble for Apple, Now Even Mozilla Pushes Back Against Google
- Links for the day
- Microsoft "Buyout" Offer is Less Than One Year's Salary
- So our assumption about this was correct
- The Corrupt Lecture the Non-Corrupt - Part X - European Patent Office Managers Have Crossed Red Lines, According to Themselves
- The girlfriend of the President of the European Patent Office (EPO) is trying to muzzle EPO critics
- Techrights is Still Growing, Attacking Techrights Does Not Weaken the Community
- Bullying us for 2+ years does not result in fear, it results in us feeling more emboldened and motivated
- SLAPP Censorship - Part 63 Out of 200: Graveley as a Stripped-Down Version of Garrett in the Particulars of Claim (5RB Barrister Could Do This in One Minute)
- Lazily and sloppily, it looks like the barrister took Garrett's claims and tweaked them a little (shortened) for Graveley
- Lots of People Leave IBM, Today IBM Has About 1,000 Workers Fewer Than Yesterday
- Confluent "last day" for 800+ people
- Been a Very Busy Week
- Next week, as we have no upgrades to prepare for, we should be able to publish at the usual pace of 20+ pages per day
- In New Letter Sent to Chair and Heads of Delegation of the Administrative Council of the European Patent Organisation the Staff Union Explains How to End European Patent Office Strikes
- If Campinos continues to behave as he does right now, the Council can show him the door
- Links 01/05/2026: Poems and Continuous Privacy Policy
- Links for the day
- Over at Tux Machines...
- GNU/Linux news for the past day
- IRC Proceedings: Thursday, April 30, 2026
- IRC logs for Thursday, April 30, 2026
- Microsoft Debt Rose Almost $50 Billion Since We Moved to Debian
- GAFAM has a new name for debt
