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Pro-IBM (Red Hat) Censorship in thelayoff.com

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jan 11, 2024,
updated Jan 11, 2024

The comment we cited the other night has been deleted by thelayoff.com:

A censorship example in site

Here is the comment they deleted (from backup):

A deleted message

I have no idea who left that comment, but years ago I used to closely track IBM layoffs through thelayoff.com. I stopped when I noticed they had extensively censored comments for no good reason, not just before they appeared but also after they had been approved, and usually for no legitimate purpose and with no explanation/reasoning whatsoever (nothing rude or false). I openly complained about this many times (back then).

This is a sanitised (incomplete, censored) page:

A censorship example in site

You're not getting the full picture. Someone is manipulating reality.

Today I was told that just like [Name Redacted] trying to delete the past Microsoft goes out of its way to delete the past, sometimes by directly contacting bloggers. Not only does [Name Redacted] try to work for Microsoft; [Name Redacted] pursued Windows jobs and boasted a Microsoft E-mail account. We'll cover all that later this year.

Censorious people are typically untrustworthy people, who are unable to argue in favour of their position and instead resort to perjury, trying to silence or deplatform people they disagree with (by lying about them, threatening them, and worse). Nazis are convenient straw man in this context; if there are no nazis in the picture, the censors will create imposter account and start talking like nazis, just like AstroTurfers who are trying to ram CoCs into project by making physical, violent threats (in effect creating the problem to demand a non-solution).

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