Techrights is a Demonstrably Popular Site, Reporting Suppressed Facts. Those Vouching for Its 'Unpopularity' Express a Desire Rather Than a Condition or a Fact.
Sites like Reddit constitute part of the suppression and censorship mechanisms (a filter for their sponsors)
ATTEMPTS to sabotage my work, censor my articles, deplatform my accounts (when I was still in social control media) and take down this site aren't new. They go back to (at least) 2008. Over time I learned the tricks and means of prevention. Going back further to 2005 and 2006 I also saw Microsofters working hard to take me offline as in disconnect me from the Internet altogether (I wrote about this many times before; I remember all the fine details... to this very day).
The efforts to silence or to discredit the 'inconvenient' (to power) truth is very much expected. If it happened in politics, it'll happen in "tech" too (quotes around the term because what we have left hardly qualifies as science and technology, it's more like a cult of buzzwords run by a circus).
Techrights is extremely robust to censorship, which makes it an attractive avenue for whistleblowers, including Microsoft whistleblowers. They cannot be censored here and material they leak to us never got censored.
Our 100% source protection record will hold up. Our "no censorship" policy will too; in IRC, those who commit crimes will face the legal consequences. That's a separate matter.
Next week we'll continue writing about the TOS maze and reveal some more information about GitHub, based on whistleblowers. Nothing can stop that. Historically, attempts to silence us always backfired very badly.
Microsoft and IBM are going through a very difficult period right now. Wall Street isn't telling the true story; in fact, what goes on in Wall Street is a big part of the scandal.
Novell did not last long after it had signed the deal with Microsoft - a deal that was partly paved by Miguel de Icaza (it's a matter of public record).
The same people who vandalise Free software through GitHub are still out there scheming and plotting to kill the movement - our movement. We'll resist them and their Trojan horses.
Inciting people against Techrights isn't new. It doesn't work well. In anything, it gets more people interested in what Techrights actually says. █