SqlSpace Banned on Digg? For What?!?!
This post is in no way related to anything gym, fitness, cardio or socially related, although it must be shouted from the rooftops. I would consider this blog fairly controversial, if not downright evil on some of the problems that we have in the world, and I spew information unto the world via my skewed sense of how things are vs. how things should be.
It seems Microsoft, that greedy corporate wasteland garbage heap in Silicon Valley, is up to its usual unethical corporate manipulation yet again. Here’s the scoop: SqlSpace, a non-partisan and viable news source forum dedicated to everything from politics and technology to sci-fi and humor has been banned from Digg for posting a screenshot of Windows Marketplace hosting Ubuntu, an offshoot of Linux/Unix, about half a month ago. For SqlSpace doing this, they got banned from Digg because Digg chose to cater to Microsoft.
Now, most of us know what Digg is, it’s a social media news forum. Anybody can post pretty much anything they want up there, as long as nobody gets mentally and emotionally hurt. Basically it has everything from politics and technology down to nostalgic lists like “The 10 best Atari games of 1981″, stuff like that. In any case, Digg is a pretty entertaining read for anybody with a little time on their hands.
Either way, Digg has also been a champion of Linux/Unix platforms for a looooong time, not because Digg chose this, but because since it’s a social media outlet, people chose to post how cool Linux and it’s open-source offshoots really were! Now, Digg is burying any story that mentions SqlSpace and Linux.
The bottom line is, who knows why Digg chose to ban SqlSpace, other than the fact that Microsoft is Digg’s ad provider, and MS basically pays Digg’s bills. Now I have absolutely no problem with Microsoft’s products, even that “shitty shitty” shit called Vista that everyone complains about. I have it at home and I personally have no problem with it. What I do have a problem with, though, is Microsoft’s shady underhanded unethical business practices to hold on to the technological top spot by a string of spit.
I imagine they’ve heard enough about Linux products and realize that after the public backlash of Vista, they need to resort to some kind marketing ploy to regain some market share…it’s not enough to only have 90% of the market instead of 95%….The only thing is, their marketing budget is geared towards suppressing other platforms’ marketing, thus making every other platform go away….And Microsoft wonders, up their on their throne of lies in Silicon Valley, why nobody adheres to Microsoft’s technological ideals anymore. Because people can smell BULLSHIT eventually.
Mr. Bill Gates, you are a fraud. You hide behind your goofy nerdy face and your coke bottle glasses and your righteous charities while, even though you “stepped down” from your position at your own company, you continue to have your hands on the puppet strings. You’re a billionaire, you made your money all the while consciously running a monopoly on technology. Yeah, you may have gotten away with it in the government’s eyes, but not the people’s. You proved that you’re the best, now call it a day and give everyone else a shot.