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2009-07-26 In Defense of Boycott Novell
2019-03-02 The World Wide Web is a Dangerous Place -- GNU/Linux Sites Included -- Because of Misuse of JavaScript and Other Bloat
2019-06-08 The Linux Foundation in 2019: Over 100 Million Dollars in Income, But Cannot Maintain Linux.com?
2019-07-09 Why Social Control Media is a Threat to (Software) Freedom
2019-08-17 Why Techrights Doesn't Do Social Control Media
2020-01-21 The Internet is an Appalling Medium for News and It Has Only Gotten Worse
2020-04-30 Platinum (Top) Sponsors of Copyleft Conf Are Companies That Attack Copyleft's Father, Richard Stallman
2020-07-11 Free (as in Freedom) Software + Social Control Media ≠ Free Speech
2020-07-25 Many Things to Feel Thankful for in the GNU/Linux and Free Software Community
2020-09-06 Social Control Media Ought Not Influence Election Outcomes (But It Does, Oftentimes Based on Misinformation, No Quality Control)
2021-01-24 Social Control Media is a Passing Fad, We Should All Go Back to Blogging and Subscribing to RSS Feeds
2021-01-29 Fediverse Bans/Deplatforms Users Whose Views Are Deemed 'Edgy' and When They Set Up Their Own Instances Those Too Get Blocked
2021-03-15 More Than a Month Later Raspberry Pi Foundation is a Microsoft Censor
2021-08-07 Forking is Easy, But the Hard Part is Finding a Strong Rationale for It (Essential for Momentum)
2021-08-20 Using Web-based IRC for Your Communities, Projects and Professional/Personal Circles, Using Free/Libre Software at Every Level (From Server to Client)
2021-11-06 Mastodon Has Turned Free Software Into a Mechanism by Which to Exercise Unjust Power Over Users
2021-11-07 Opinion: The GPL and Politics
2021-11-07 15 Years Saying the Unsayable (Taboo Subjects, Suppressed Information, and Unpopular or Inconvenient Truths)
2021-12-30 [Video] Open Source Initiative (OSI) Board of Directors Chair and Former Treasurer: Half of Our Money Goes to Microsoft Stuff
2022-01-11 Microsoft GitHub, DRM Enforcer, Bans Free Software
2022-02-10 Social Control Media is a Bubble and JoinDiaspora Might be the Next Casualty
2022-02-17 Getting Accurate News on the Internet is Hard; From the Web It's Even Harder
2022-05-20 Outsourcing Sites to Social Control Media is an Outdated Mindset in 2022
2022-10-09 Social Control Media Heading Towards Extinction
2022-10-09 The Promise of Data (and Accounts') Portability in Federated Networks Like Fediverse and Diaspora is Still Unfulfilled
2022-11-07 The Rapid Collapse of Twitter and Facebook
2022-11-07 Don't Move From Twitter and Facebook to Something Similar -- Even If Free/Decentralised/Federated -- When You Can Just Dump All Social Control Media (Altogether)
2022-11-08 Twitter's Elon Musk Imitates Freenode's Andrew Lee
2022-11-10 Microsoft is Sued for Copyright Violations (Under Guise of 'AI') and Microsoft-Bribed Open Source Initiative Backs the Infringer, Microsoft
2022-11-11 2023 Should be the Year You've Lived Without Social Control Media (Any of It!)
2022-11-14 I Was Already Banned From Mastodon.social After Three Days for Insulting the Chinese Communist Government and Talking About Bill Gates
2022-11-17 Social Control Media is Dying, Long Live Gemini
2023-01-04 Looks Like GNU/Linux and Free Software Folks Are Exiting Twitter Fast
2023-03-03 Thoughts on Microsoft Stabber Joseph Cantrell’s Drug Diary
2023-04-21 A Bunch of Mastodon Posts (from mstdn.social) Were Deleted for “Fake News” and “Violent and Harassing”, and I Was Finally Banned. Here’s a Few.
2023-04-21 Twitter Up in Flames (Like a Flaming Rocket)
2023-04-25 LibrePlanet Talk: Rayner Lucas and Tristan Miller on USENET and How It's Moderated
2023-05-15 IBM Has Killed OpenSource.com, Rejecting the Open Source Way
2023-05-27 Social Control Media Needs to be Purged and We Need to Convince Others to Quit It Too (to Protect Ourselves as Individuals and as a Society)
2023-05-28 No More Twitter, Mastodon, and Diaspora for Tux Machines (Goodbye to Social Control Media)
2023-06-08 The Need to Evolve on the Internet
2023-06-24 Social Control Media is Going Away Gradually and People Need to Return to Self-Hosting, Blogs, RSS, Truly Independently News Sites
2023-07-01 2023 Will Be Remembered as the Year Social Control Media Was Dying
2023-07-01 Drew DeVault Has Lost the Plot
2023-07-07 Social Control Media is Bad and the Solution is to Reject All of It
2023-07-11 Leftover Links 11/07/2023: Media Already Lies About the Scale of Microsoft's Latest Wave of Layoffs
2023-07-12 Leftover Links 11/07/2023: More on Microsoft Layoffs Today (Ireland Also)
2023-07-12 How Twitter (Quite Likely Both the Company and the Platform) Died in June/July 2023
2023-07-12 Leftover Links 12/07/2023: Windows TCO Tales and Many Attacks on Freedom of the Press
2023-07-13 Twitter Will Go Offline for Good. Then What?
2023-07-14 Leftover Links 14/07/2023: Microsoft in Trouble With the FTC Again, This Time Over 'Open' 'AI'
2023-07-27 Leftover Links 27/07/2023: Google Pushes “Web Integrity API” (DRM) Into the World Wide Web
2023-07-27 Federation Is Inferior to Self-Hosting and Using RSS Feeds (or Other Syndication Formats)
2023-08-04 Leftover Links 04/08/2023: 10 Years of Let’s Encrypt, UEFI Security Chaos Again
2023-08-11 Another Campaign of Mass Defamation by Matthew J Garrett
2023-08-11 Operation Mole — Part II — The Evolution of Matthew J Garrett's Vast Army of Online Sockpuppets, Hiding Criminal Activities Behind the Tor Network
2023-08-13 Taking It Easy at the 'HQ' of Techrights
2023-08-18 Leftover Links 18/08/2023: IBM Working for Microsoft
2023-08-21 No, I'm Not in Mastodon or in the Fediverse. It's Fake.
2023-08-22 Matthew J Garrett is Irrelevant But Still Dangerous to Himself and Those Around Him
2023-08-27 Rejecting Social Control Media and Oppressive Systems, Matrix.org the Latest in Social Media Death Spiral
2023-08-29 Rianne Schestowitz: The Underworld of [Name Redacted], the Online Bulldog of Matthew J. Garrett
2023-09-03 Mastodon: A Community So Vile They Even Eat Their Own. More Thoughts On Reddit.
2023-09-03 Leftover Links 03/09/2023: WordPad Dies, TikTok Promotes Harm to Children
2023-09-07 Operation Mole — Part VIII — Even Libera.Chat Has Gotten Sick of the Illegal Behaviour of 'Team Axe' (Microsoft Boosters K-Lined Last Night)
2023-09-08 Record Traffic and 6 Months of Uptime for Our Gemini Capsule
2023-09-08 Leftover Links 08/09/2023: Security and War on Encryption
2023-09-09 Google Chrome Enables More Spyware; Calls It “Ad Privacy Feature”
2023-09-15 The Web Browser We Lost (Not Just the Web We Lost)
2023-09-25 Linux Foundation: We Came, We Saw, We Plundered
2023-09-30 Social Control Media Has No Future, It Was Always Doomed to Fail (Also Promoted Based on Lies)
2023-10-01 Malware in the Ubuntu Snap Store, Thanks to Canonical Bloatware Mindset
2023-10-02 Richard Stallman Can Outlive Many of His Prominent Haters
2023-10-05 opensource.com/opensource.net Hiding How Dead They Truly Are After Mass Layoffs at IBM/Red Hat
2023-10-14 Homophobic Abuse on the Net and Government-Mandated Censorship That Fails to Protect Vulnerable People
2023-10-15 In Defense of Richard Stallman and Eben Moglen
2023-10-21 Mastodon 'Freedom': Tech.LGBT Bans Gay Progressive, a Victim of American Internment Camps
2023-10-22 Tech.LGBT Removes Shadow Ban on George Takei, Who is Gay, Blocks Gay Man for Asking Why Takei Was Shadowbanned
2023-12-16 [Meme] Win-Win for Mark Zuckerberg (Fediverse, Pleroma, Mastodon Finally 'Monetised')
2023-12-30 Drivers of social influence in the Twitter migration to Mastodon
2024-01-07 Software Defaults
2024-01-22 Militants Who Attacked Techrights by Doing Horrible and Illegal Things Try to Delete Themselves From the Web
2024-02-06 Mastodon/Fediverse is Not a Reliable Communication Protocol or Tool, It Heavily Uses Blocklists Just Like E-mail in Recent Years
2024-02-13 Anecdotal Signs That Social Control Media (as a Concept) is Waning and Losing Popularity
2024-02-15 Hot Topics in the First 2 Weeks of This Month
2024-02-27 Google Fired Many Employees Working on Google News (Which Had Deteriorated and Became Gulag Noise, Littered and Gamed by Blogspam, Plagiarism, and Chatbot/Translator-Generated Spew), Now Comes the Likely 'Phase-out'
2024-03-02 Wikipedia Demotes CNET Due to Chatbot-Generated Spew as 'Articles'; It Should Do the Same to ZDNet (Also Red Ventures, Also Microsoft Propaganda)
2024-03-14 Debian: transgender threats to transgender death, Lucy Wayland, RIP
2024-03-29 SoylentNews Grows Up, Registers as a Business, Site Traffic Reportedly Grows
2024-04-09 Mastodon (mastodon.social) Gives the Boot to the Militants Who Attacked My Wife and I
2024-04-11 First They Came for Iranian Developers...
2024-04-19 Red Hat Communicates the World Via Microsoft Proprietary Spyware
2024-04-22 Online Brigade Demands That the Person Who Made Nix Leaves Nix for Not Censoring People 'Enough'
2024-04-23 Richard Stallman's Next Public Talk is on Friday, 17:30 in Córdoba (Spain), FSF Cannot Mention It
2024-05-02 Embrace, Extend, Replace the Original (Or Just Hijack the Word 'Sudo')
2024-05-28 A 3-Year Campaign to Coerce/Intimidate Us Into Censorship: Targeting Guest Writers (Intimidation)
2024-06-01 Society Has Been Destabilised by Social Control Networks
2024-06-07 The War on Free Software Reporters - Part V - Death Threats
2024-06-13 Mobs Don't Get the Job Done (Mob Leaders Have Lost Credibility/Visibility, Job, or Both)
2024-06-24 Torvalds' Number Two Quit Linux a Decade Ago and Has Since Then Earned an Honorary Doctorate
2024-06-24 The Corporate/Mainstream Media and Even Social Control Media is Distorting the Record About What Mozilla Actually Did (It Originally Surrendered to Vladimir Putin)
2024-06-26 Debian Project Still Has a Lot of Explaining to Do...
2024-06-30 Eko K. A. Owen, New Outreach and Communications Coordinator for the FSF
2024-07-20 Geminispace Growing and Getting More Free (Independent)
2024-07-20 When (Software) Freedom is the Goal
2024-07-29 Responding to Us In Mastodon
2024-07-29 Anti-Free Software Militants Reported to the Police for Second Time This Month
2024-08-05 “Ignoring office politics doesn't avoid them. It makes you the target."
2024-09-03 Daniel Pocock Brought Back the Site of Let's Encrypt's Founder and Proved That Let's Encrypt Does Not Verify Authenticity
2024-09-07 No, Mastodon is Not Growing, Social Control Media is Generally Waning
2024-09-07 Certificate Authorities (CAs) Are Serving the Authorities, Not You
2024-09-07 Rage in the Propaganda Machine
2024-09-08 On Losing the Job at Google After Talking About Committing Acts of Violence Against Colleagues
2024-09-13 ircII Has Turned 35
2024-09-24 WordPress is the Latest Free Software Project Facing Calls to Expel the Chief
2024-09-26 A Year Since the Big Switch - Part V - In Summary
2024-10-08 X Has Axed Itself. This is Great News and Further Affirmation of Everything We've Said About Social Control Media.
2024-10-21 Word of Praise for Growing Recognition That Social Control Media Causes Health Problems (But It's Not Just 'TikTok' or "China")
2024-10-28 YouTube Waning and Drowning
2024-11-05 Against Outsourcing of Sites and E-mail
2024-11-09 There's No Free Lunch in Video Hosting
2024-12-02 Self-Deprecating Attacks on RMS
2024-12-04 Proof That Drew DeVault Vanished From Mastodon After the RMS Attack Site Was Linked to Him (and People Pointed Out DeVault's Fascination With Animated CP, Drawings of Naked Kids)
2024-12-04 [Meme] Far From What Was Originally Intended
2024-12-11 Protecting People From So-called 'Social Media' is Not Censorship (No More Than Banning or Restricting Access to Cigarettes is 'Censorship')
2024-12-14 Playing Social Control Media 'Games' Instead of Writing Articles
2025-01-07 The Free Software Foundation (FSF) Turns 40 This Year, Now It Shows Possible Logos for the Special Event That Celebrates Sharing
2025-01-12 [Meme] Being High on Drugs Isn't Happiness (Likewise, Being a "Star" in Social Control Media is Temporary)
2025-01-13 [Meme] What Free Speech Ought to Mean
2025-01-19 What's Running on the Laptops
2025-01-22 Geminispace (Gemini Protocol) Offers an Escape From Social Control Networks Owned by Oligarchs and Governments
2025-01-27 GAFAM Hates - Except in a Worryingly Parasitic Way - GNU/Linux and Its Freedoms (or Its Users)
2025-01-29 We Were Right About stallmansupport.org Making an Error by Joining Social Control Media. mastodon.social Suspends stallmansupport.org.
2025-01-29 Articles About Free Speech at Facebook
2025-01-29 Sharing is Caring (But Advocating Copyleft Makes You a "Target")
2025-01-29 Mastodon Was Always Biased (Just Like Twitter After Abandoning Chronological and Neutral Timelines in Order to Become More Like Facebook)
2025-01-31 [Meme] The Free Software Foundation (FSF) Has Critics Because Its Message is Effective
2025-02-08 On Wars Against Founders
2025-03-04 Thorsten Glaser & Open Source Initiative (OSI) resignations due to AI whitewashing
2025-03-04 Social Control Media as a Rapid Race to the Bottom - Part I - That Sinking Feeling
2025-03-05 Use RSS Readers Instead of Social Control Media
2025-03-05 GNU/Linux Climbs to Record Levels in Switzerland. Can the EU, Norway, the UK, and Switzerland Divorce GAFAM?
2025-03-08 Graveyard of Mastodons: A Vast Number of Inactive Accounts
2025-04-20 Five (or Three) Years Without Social Control Media
2025-04-30 Why Techrights Attracts SLAPPs From American Microsofters Who Literally Strangle Women and Rely on the Most Unscrupulous Law Firms
2025-04-30 Techrights Statement: The Solution is Not More Censorship or Moving to Another Mastodon Instance, the Core Problem is Social Control Media Including Mastodon
2025-05-02 Online Mobs and Crabs: Doing to Fabrice Bellard What They Did to Richard Stallman and Linus Torvalds
2025-05-26 The Openwashing Shills Initiative (OSI) - Part I: Complaints to IRS or USDOJ Needed
2025-05-28 Microsofters Were Scheming to Take Over This Entire Web Site (in Their Own Words!)
2025-06-04 How to Expose High-Level Corruption Without Getting in (Too Much) Trouble
2025-06-13 The More Time Passes, the Better Our Advice on Social Control Media Seems
2025-06-20 Mastodon and the Fediverse Have an Issue: Liability for Content (Even in Other Instances) and Costs
2025-07-06 Social Control Media, Even If Based on Free Software, Still Has Many Problems
2025-07-06 Being in Social Control Media Means Exposing Oneself to Heckling
2025-07-07 Reinforcing the Allegations Some More, Bryan Lunduke Digs His Own Grave
2025-07-09 The FSF's SysOps Team Recovered From Serious Hardware Issue Within Hours
2025-07-19 Yes, Your Mastodon Instance Will Also Shut Down
2025-07-21 Social Control Media Relies on Advertisers, So It'll Always Be Hostile Towards Free Software
2025-07-27 When They Tell You It's Free, Does That Mean No Charges (If So, Who's Paying and Why)?
2025-07-29 LWN Downtime Due to Linode, Not LLM Bots
2025-08-12 Google News is Dying: Most of Its Top Stories Now Are LLM Slop With Slop Images (i.e. 100% Fake 'Content')
2025-08-17 Open Source Initiative (OSI), Wikipedia, Molly De Blanc, and Censorship/Reputation Laundering
2025-08-20 Social Control Networks Give You False Metrics to 'Addict' You To Them
2025-09-23 Lessons We've Learned After 17 Years of American Hosting
2025-10-01 Linux is Not a Community Project, It's a Wall Street Product
2025-10-08 Social Control Media is Sinking
2025-11-13 The Federation? Almost 90% of Its Users Have Quit Participating.
2025-11-29 The Federation Has Failed, It's Not a Popularity Contest Which Exposes Oneself to Audiences
2026-01-05 No, Writing Isn't in Decline, Some of the Large and Centralised Platforms Are
2026-01-24 Giving a Voice to the Community (Even When It's Inconvenient or 'Scary')
2026-03-08 An American War on GNU/Linux, Software Freedom, and British Investigative, Science-Based Reporting - Part II - Trying to Put People in Prison for Committing the Act of Journalism
2026-03-15 Microsofters' SLAPP Censorship - Part 13 Out of 200: Abuse of Process to Make False Accusations of UKGDPR Violations
2026-05-07 SLAPP Censorship - Part 69 Out of 200: Microsoft's Graveley Strangles, Gets Arrested, Charged, Then Asks for Apology From Those Who Reported It by Recycling Garrett's Plea for Apology
2026-05-15 Not a Security Expert If You Cannot Manage to Keep Online a Simple Two-User Mastodon Instance Somebody Else Built
2026-05-17 SLAPP Censorship - Part 79 Out of 200: They Will Soon Reach the 100 KG (Kilograms) Milestone; Wheelbarrows, Not Justice (Quantity of Legal Papers Sent to Us)
2026-07-11 Blogs May be Making a Comeback (They're Not Fediverse, They Are Joined by RSS Feeds)
2026-07-24 Almost 5 Years Without Social Control Media ('Mind Prison')
2026-08-01 Positive Political Momentum
2026-08-10 Social Control Media Deathwatch: After Nearly a Million Posts Sent EchoFeed Shuts Down
2026-08-10 Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) Does Not Support Women, It Imitates Authentic Organisations, Embraces Misogynists, Then Projects
2026-08-14 Fake Growth of Social Control Media is Misleading
2026-09-09 SLAPP Censorship - Part 176 Out of 200: The Sex-Obsessed Non-Experts
2026-09-26 Brigading Against Women - Part IV - Death Threats, Threats to Women, and Threats for Pointing Out, Correctly and Based on Hard Evidence, That Garrett and Lozza Talk to Each Other About Me Every Year (for 4 Years)
2026-09-27 Brigading Against Women - Part VI - On Garrett and Lozza, Defamation, Attempts to Crack My Wife's Accounts, Social Engineering to Try to Take Sites Offline, Subscribing Us to Mountains of SPAM
2026-09-28 Brigading Against Women - Part VII - 'Trolling' Courts and Legal Systems in America and in the UK (Europe) Costs a Lot to Taxpayers
2026-10-07 The GNOME Foundation's Code of Conduct Has Been Misused to Hide Corruption