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John C. Dvorak Released from PC Magazine

posted by martyb on Monday October 15 2018, @03:39AM   Printer-friendly
from the has-a-nice-keyboard,-though dept.

Anonymous Coward writes:

I have been a follower of John Dvorak's articles on PC Magazine for a long time. His column comes out like clockwork, but his Opinions page was not updated for weeks. A little searching found an article on Medium from John himself. He says that he was released for his article that was critical of the forthcoming 5G system, and the magazine went so far as to replace his article with a pro-industry article. You can read John's story here.

A sad sign of the times where advertising rules everything.

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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by VLM on Monday October 15 2018, @01:32PM (3 children)

    by VLM (445) on Monday October 15 2018, @01:32PM (#749011)

    that was critical of the forthcoming 5G system

    The real problem with 5G is its excruciatingly boring and uninteresting.

    Its not going to enable any new applications, its not going to do anything about nickel and dimeing bandwidth caps, you can't show it off to anyone to impress them with your wealth, its meaningless to the end user.

    They're going to have to spend a lot of money on PR to ram it down people's throats (and on to their already high bills)

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  • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Monday October 15 2018, @02:10PM

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Monday October 15 2018, @02:10PM (#749034) Journal

    Just you wait until the exciting new marketing campaign for the fantastic new 6G!!!

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  • (Score: 5, Insightful) by nitehawk214 on Monday October 15 2018, @02:34PM (1 child)

    by nitehawk214 (1304) on Monday October 15 2018, @02:34PM (#749052)

    How about this marketing campaign: With 5G, you can reach your arbitrarily imposed bandwidth cap 5x faster!

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    • (Score: 4, Funny) by bob_super on Monday October 15 2018, @04:36PM

      by bob_super (1357) on Monday October 15 2018, @04:36PM (#749118)

      You win. I'll ask the secretary to shred my own posters, which were the more realistic "Almost drained you of 4G per year, now aiming for 5G"