QUICK! Name a company that openly says (or whose Web site states) it doesn't value your privacy! Oh, even Facebook says it is about privacy. Name a company that says it pollutes... anyone? Anyone? Going once, going twice...

"They'll work harder to control the psyche or the narrative, telling us stuff as ridiculous as morality being the censorship of mere words (even rather innocent and innocuous words, by taking them out of context)."The matter of fact is, corporations shamelessly lie about what they really are and about what they do.

Every week or every number of days IBM tells us that it does #TechForGood (typically some greenwashing, openwashing, disaster recovery and so on; screenshot below), but look no further than IBM's past and present (not what press releases say). Sooner or later they reach the point of lying with sincerity; many employees come to believe the employer's lies. And perhaps that's the whole point -- misleading employees and clients by sending out messages contrary to truth itself. That leads to contradiction and thus confusion, uncertainty.

Enter Free software.

As the Debian mantra goes, they "won't hide problems..."^*

And we don't. We talk about those things.

Sure, there are censorship and suppression attempts, but those tend to backfire. Recently we wrote a great deal about Debian, having already published about 100 articles about IBM (earlier on throughout the summer).

Having honest discussions based on pertinent facts isn't always "easy" or "fun"; the world isn't always a pretty place and technology tends to become more aggressive as regimes become more oppressive (creating a demand for such technology). It's hardly surprising that Google and Microsoft spread their money around, seeking Public Relations and suppression of critics (censorship). Expect more and more of that as their work (so-called 'technology') becomes increasingly malicious. They'll work harder to control the psyche or the narrative, telling us stuff as ridiculous as morality being the censorship of mere words (even rather innocent and innocuous words, by taking them out of context).

Techrights is a site that values truth, not convenient illusions and corporate/political pandering. That's why many people read and trust Techrights. Truth is becoming a rarity because it is defunded. The Big Money is in deception; ask the Linux Foundation. This past week it spent a lot of resources openwashing IBM's mainframes (as if sticking the word "open" in front of things magically makes them ethical). ⬆ _____ ^* The Debian Social Contract says: 1. Debian Will Remain 100% Free Software; 2. We Will Give Back to the Free Software Community; 3. We Won't Hide Problems; 4 Our Priorities are Our Users and Free Software...