gridlore: Doug looking off camera with a grin (Goth)
Douglas Berry ([personal profile] gridlore) wrote2004-01-06 07:17 am

Found while surfing.

I read far-right websites. I love them. It's like visiting the Twilight Zone.

Today I found this in a "news file" page::

05/01/2002 - More Evidence Against Wal-Mart

Not only is Wal-Mart targeting our youth with prurient and outright pornographic "reading" material, but they are also facilitating hackers by selling so-called "naked PCs" on their website. While this sounds like more computer pornography, naked PCs -- or computers of questionable legality sold without an installed and licensed operating system -- are actually more pernicious in that they are used by members of the Free Source cult to create hacking tools for disabling filtering software. Walmart.com even promotes the use of these hacking tools (popularly known as "Linix") in conjunction with the naked PCs they sell. Furthermore, when not being used for hacking, these naked PCs are used for running computer operating systems (such as the standard Microsoft Windows or alternate systems like Apple Macintosh) without paying for the proper licenses -- in other words, theft. Does this sound like a wholesome business to you?


Let us marvel. First, a group that thinks WalMart is too liberal. Then, the scary "Free Source cult" I wonder if [livejournal.com profile] mdlbear has anything to do with this?

I looked, and this page appeared to be legit.

[identity profile] arib.livejournal.com 2004-01-06 07:49 am (UTC)(link)
Wait... This shit's real?

Wow.

[identity profile] flaim.livejournal.com 2004-01-06 12:33 pm (UTC)(link)
The thought of dropping them a note to attempt to educate them has crossed my mind, until I saw that the 'news' article in question was about 18 months old. Though I suppose that since it's still on the site they haven't been educated enough..
mdlbear: blue fractal bear with text "since 2002" (Default)

[personal profile] mdlbear 2004-01-06 08:19 pm (UTC)(link)
The mind boggles. Is it possible that the site is sponsored by SCO?