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Yleisradio Oy (Yle) Acting Like a Microsoft Mouthpiece (Legacy of Mikael Jungner is Likely)

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 02, 2023,
updated Nov 02, 2023

Photo by Hannu Makarainen - https://www.flickr.com/photos/hannumakarainen/6973713591, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=36879100

Mikael Jungner. Avoin keskustelutilaisuus Eduskunnassa 9. maaliskuuta 2012 'Mistä ACTA-sopimuksessa on kyse?' Järjestäjänä SDP.

DAYS ago we mentioned toxic spin and outright misinformation (if not disinformation) by Yleisradio Oy (Yle), the national Finnish media, akin to BillBC in the UK (controlled by Microsoft executives and repeatedly bribed by Bill Gates himself).

Heck, look who has been put in charge of Yle and BillBC in recent decades. Internal Microsoft documents shamelessly admit the company needs to take over media outlets. These specify ways to achieve such takeovers. When national broadcasters are targeted it means that taxpayers foot the bill for Biil and his propaganda apparatus - a highly immoral aspect given that Gates is a foreigner and a criminal (arrested several times already). Wait till we speak about Nadella's past some time later this month...

Microsoft is not about technical work but about marketing, bribery, "lobbying", and mobbing (e.g. doxing critics and threatening their family members). Think of Microsoft software as the restaurant or pizza sold at the front shop of some mafia operation, acting as a bit of a cover for the likes of Bill Gates, who never even finished college and did not study computing. It's all about hoarding taxpayers' money (monopoly rents help drive up prices, as do patents) and using criminal activities to build and shield monopolies (without competition you need not excel at anything).

Despite Microsoft and its PR agencies constantly editing (vandalising) Wikipedia, they cannot completely hide what's happening. Jungner, shown above, is one example of the Yle - Microsoft connection*. There are more. Maybe one day the Microsoft editors will get around to hiding this (maybe claiming it's "old" or "not important"), so we're making a screenshot right now:

Mikael Jungner (born 20 April 1965, in Helsinki), is the former party secretary of the Social Democratic Party of Finland, a member of the Finnish parliament, and a former managing director of the Finnish national broadcaster Yle. Junger grew up on the Finnish west coast in the city of Vaasa. He started a five-year term as Managing Director of Yle on 1 May 2005. Although he sought another term, the political board of Yle replaced him with Lauri Kivinen, a member of National Coalition Party, on 1 May 2010. Jungner's term as the managing director of Yle is generally considered to have been a success.[1] Jungner was the director of information society relations at the Microsoft Corporation between 2002 and 2004. He was the former aide of previous Prime Minister Paavo Lipponen. It is commonly understood that Lipponen helped Jungner to get the Managing Director's position in Yle.[citation needed] In May 2010, Jungner was elected as the party secretary of the SDP.[2] Jungner's term proved to be a disappointment for the Social Democratic Party, which lost the 2015 elections.

It was not even a technical role. As usual... why make better products when you can bypass technical decision makers and just "lobby" or bribe politicians and "suits"? Call the rivals of Microsoft "zealots" or "Microsoft haters"... to seal the back room (for back doors) deal.

There is a new example today of poor reporting or misreporting by Yle in English (recent defunded by a lot). As one reader put it, Windows botnets are ultimately the vehicle for these attacks, yet this simple fact is pointedly ignored by the Microsoft media. The headline says "DoS attacks target Bank of Finland, Tax Administration," but what are the offending machines? "A pro-Russia hacker group has claimed responsibility," says the summary, but what is the enabler or facilitator here? Yle is blaming Russia instead of the back doors exploited by Russia, owing to Microsoft and the NSA, along with the people who deploy those back doors and then shout "FUCKING RUSHANS!"

Who put Windows out there in the first place? They're not a secret. Their names are on contracts signed and physically stored somewhere... and unlike Russians, they can be arrested without having to invade Russia or convince Putin to extradite his citizens.

The American media also seems to have just missed the point. "The metrics ought to include elimination of closed source products from the work environment," someone told us, "especially those from Microsoft.

Well, we've been there before... and we plan to follow up with a video later today.

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* There is a dead but important article "about his time helping Lipponen violate the constitution," as a reader told us, noting that "only the whistleblower got in trouble over that."

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