The In-Progress Plot To Kill Google

twitter writes "Four years after Steve Ballmer vowed to kill Google, Wired details Microsoft's, AT&T's, and big publishers' ongoing slog. The story is filled with astroturfers, lobbyists and others spending millions to manufacture FUD about privacy and monopoly in order to protect the obsolete business models of their patrons, who are mostly known for progress-halting monopoly and invasion of privacy. Their greatest coup to date was preventing Google from rescuing Yahoo."

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Re:Slashdot: FUD astroturfer's home turf

[Erris]

Yes, M$ does manage to put that exact message here. It's the typical M$ lie, "our competitors have all of our flaws and more," and not particularly tailored to Slashdot. They also blast the same out through the Wintel press constantly. The truth is almost always just the opposite:

• Who's tight with China? M$ - Google and Yahoo are less so but get the blame.
• Who's waging the patent war? M$, the only company to have actually threatened free sotware directly, IBM a big free software booster is blamed.
• Who bent over backward for wiretaps? ATT with help from the folks who built the Great Firewall of China - but Google is a threat because they might have too much of your data?

I can go on and on because the bullshit from the digital oppressors never stops. Shame on Slashdot for linking to so many of those BS stories. Some days it seems like Slashdot is a FUD factory. I'm glad Wired got this one and Slashdot carried it - despite their "one grain of salt per word insult." It could be that everything they think is wrong.