Bonum Certa Men Certa

Microsoft Money: From Bribing Bloggers to SLAPPing Bloggers

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 07, 2024

Microsoft money, different strategy?

Money! We use it to control the Web!

DAYS ago we learned that Microsoft AstroTurfers, Edelman, had suffered mass layoffs (even bigger than Waggener Edstrom). We've since then added two links about this to Daily Links. For those who don't know, Edelman helps Microsoft bribe bloggers and publishers for fake 'articles' and fake 'reviews' (it even did this to The Register under prior leadership). It moreover sent or emitted moles into the Linux Foundation (several of them, always female) and they did a lot of damage, in effect using their roles there to smear Linux and spread FUD (under the guise of speaking for "Linux").

We still remember!

The remaining 92% of Edelman should be out in the streets; they have nothing good to offer to society. All they do is harm. They're basically a disinformation agency. They're 100% net negative and a collective yoke - a force of harm to those who value facts and honesty, both online and offline.

As we noted yesterday, given that Edelman is apparently receiving less money from Microsoft now (to relay it as bribes to the media), there's Microsoft money (salaries) passively making its way to an unscrupulous lawyer who keeps sending us threats. He does this on behalf of two Microsofters. As one veteran in Free software (since the 90s) told me: "Using the same lawyer !!! Yeah, that’s sus." (suspect)

Maybe they reckon that instead of bribing bloggers they can instead slander, harass, and terrorise them. Earlier today we saw the person we sue [1, 2] still slandering and harassing key people from the FSF. He's only making our cases far easier by demonstrating that the same abuses he committed against us he's also committing against others, even as recently as this month. He's pressuring their employers to sack them and calls them the same insults that apply to himself.

For Microsofters, a prerequisite is a lack of empathy and no morality. We keep seeing that at Microsoft and we document it as we go along.

Other Recent Techrights' Posts

Video: University in Peru Honours Richard Stallman
Tomorrow, January 20, Richard Stallman speaks in France
FOSDEM is Called "FOSDEM" Because of Richard Stallman (RMS)
The overlap there seems timely; yesterday RMS spoke in French-speaking (in part) Switzerland where questions in French were accepted
January 20: Richard Stallman Talk in Europe
evening time in Europe, around midday in the United States and Canada
 
FTC Realises Microsoft Buying Fake 'Clients' to Fake "Revenue" (Microsoft 'Buying' Services and Products From Itself!)
Ponzi scheme
Total Lock-down Ambitions - Part III - The Web Browser as DRM Pusher
A lot of "streaming" stuff is DRM
IBM Termination Story and Information From Microsoft About Mass Layoffs
In 2 weeks of 2025 Microsoft already had 2 waves of layoffs
Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Saturday, January 18, 2025
IRC logs for Saturday, January 18, 2025
Links 18/01/2025: Restoring the Great Wall of China and Economic Expansion in China
Links for the day
Guardian Digital (linuxsecurity.com) is Spamming the Web With Microsoft's Promotional LLM Slop About UEFI 'Secure' Boot (Which is Against Real Security)
This is an attack on honest journalism
Links 18/01/2025: TikTok's Endgame, "Car Freedom", and Spying in Cars 'Fines' GM (Settlement)
Links for the day
Links 18/01/2025: Apple Getting Out of Hey Hi (AI) Slop (Too Much Misinformation), Chaffbots/Chatbots Try to Settle Copyright Infringement Lawsuits
Links for the day
What Fake News Sites Are Doing to GNU/Linux
The LLM slop about Linux serves two purposes
Links 18/01/2025: Microsofters Upset at Microsoft's Ridiculous Rebrands (Excuse for Massive Price Hikes), Chaffbot Company ('Open'AI) Faces More Lawsuits
Links for the day
Gemini Links 18/01/2025: Surge in Illnesses, ctags, and Gemsync
Links for the day
Slopwatch: Too Lazy to Write Real Articles, Offloading to Chatbots Instead (LLM Slop About "Linux")
The Web was already full of garbage before the LLM frenzy. Now it's even worse.
Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Friday, January 17, 2025
IRC logs for Friday, January 17, 2025
RMS 'Inauguration' in Montpellier (Government Administration) on January 20th
Happy hacking
Even Technical Articles and HowTos From UNIXMen Nowadays Seem to be LLM Slop
We've just permanently removed the RSS feed of UNIXMen
The FSF's 2024 End-of-Year Fundraiser Succeeds: Over $400k to Support Software Freedom
That's worth bringing up again because the SFC is trying to 'crash' this achievement of the FSF
[Meme] Fentanylware (TikTok) Banned in the United States, Next Up European Union (EU)
And the United Kingdom (UK)
President Biden is Right, "Free Press is Crumbling" and the United States Exports Its Media-Hostile Culture to Other Continents
perhaps Biden should pay closer attention to how Donald Trump-inspired Americans take their battles to other continents
Links 17/01/2025: TikTok Banned by the United Stated (SCOTUS Rejects Appeal)
Links for the day
Software Freedom Conservancy Inc (SFC) Makes It Obvious It's Just a Copycat Trying to Exploit or Leech Off the FSF's (and GNU's) Work
They swim next to the rich people (who "match")
Links 17/01/2025: Fentanylware (TikTok) Herds Its (Drug) Users Into Even More Harmful "Apps"
Links for the day
Guardian Digital, Inc (linuxsecurity.com) Uses Microsoft-Controlled Front Groups and LLM Slop in Order to Spread Microsoft-Directed Anti-Linux FUD
Microsoft garbage likely produced by Microsoft LLMs, spewing out Microsoft FUD
Likely Fake 'Article' About Linux Mint 22.1
BetaNews fired up its plagiarism machine (LLM)
Over at Tux Machines...
GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Thursday, January 16, 2025
IRC logs for Thursday, January 16, 2025