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on Friday August 21 2015, @07:03PM
from the everything-on-the-internet-is-true dept.
from the everything-on-the-internet-is-true dept.
The BBC reports that a Russian former astroturfer has been awarded one rouble ($0.01) in damages after she sued her ex-employer to expose it as a propaganda "factory". The BBC confuses "troll" with "astroturfer" but makes the point that she and hundreds of colleagues at Internet Research in St Petersburg were paid to flood websites with pro-Putin commentary. Astroturfers are nothing new, M$ has been using them for ages to push their agenda, and lately even governments are officially in on the action. The British example is the 77th brigade. As to the Russian example, the former astroturfer is happy with the award even though it is small because it exposes the activity for what it is.
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Ex-Astroturfer Wins Lawsuit Against Propaganda 'Factory'
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* m2 stares at the monitor... it looks like a hamburger...
m2 - that's a bad sign
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Snow on Friday August 21 2015, @07:49PM
Really? M$?
I thought we had some sort of editing standards here. We all may have our own opinions on Microsoft, but calling them M$ is immature and unprofessional.
(Score: 4, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 21 2015, @08:19PM
For a while it was, but now after Windows 10 they earned the right to be called M$ again.
(Score: 2) by ikanreed on Friday August 21 2015, @08:26PM
Well, "earn" "$" and "microsoft" are 3 things that don't go together so much as they used to.
(Score: 5, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 21 2015, @08:31PM
I prefer to call them MICROS~1
-- gewg_
(Score: 2) by Snow on Friday August 21 2015, @08:40PM
Haha, I can get on board with that!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 21 2015, @08:42PM
Use your own account, asshole.
That is all.
-- gewg_
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 21 2015, @09:10PM
I am using my own account.
That is all.
-- gewg_
(Score: 4, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 21 2015, @09:16PM
__gewg~1
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 21 2015, @10:54PM
See how it's done now?
(You have to put that on the Subject line.)
Thanks anyway for the assist.
For the GP:
MICROS~1 refers to their 4th-rate technology.
M$ refers to their greed (E,E,E; the treadmill; shills & paid FUDsters; etc.).
MSFT refers to mergers & acquisitions and other business-related stuff.
-- gewg_
(Score: 2) by sudo rm -rf on Friday August 21 2015, @11:35PM
I am confused now, who is the real gewg? Who are you and if yes, how many?
Don't answer, Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same: leave it to our bureaucrats and our police to see that our papers are in order. At least spare us their morality when we write
(Foucault)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 22 2015, @12:44AM
That is all
-- gewg_
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 22 2015, @05:09PM
I'm gewg_ and so is my wife!
(Score: 2) by Bot on Friday August 21 2015, @10:21PM
This is a meta I-am-astroturfing-for-M$-so-I-fake-being-offended joke, I guess?
Account abandoned.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 21 2015, @11:26PM
Hey, I have my own opinions of Snowden that paint him only just a little less in stature than the Almighty Savior, but I'm not allowed to express them without getting mod-bombed. Do you hear me bitching?
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Saturday August 22 2015, @08:37PM
Yes.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 22 2015, @01:57AM
Which is why I call them MicroPenisSuckingShits$. Just seems to capture the essence of the corporation, and is much more professional than the usual juvenile anti-Micro$erf stuff we usually see here.