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Alby_da_Wolf said:

NotStan said:

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Your comparison of the modern advertising methods to the previously used soviet propaganda are amusing. You're right, I am sure MS goes off to kidnap a family in order to blackmail opposition, or it opresses any religion or open mindness amongst it's consumers, or claim that the world revolves around MS products. Really the comparison is laughable, what you're doing is reading too much into the events that occur, not everything has a hidden message like it used to in the time of Soviet development. Yeah I may be young, but History is an interesting aspect for me, Soviet Russia in particular so I did pay great attention, as they say "In Soviet Russia, party finds you!".

I already answered you in a previous post that these are the techniques communist parties used in western and neutral countries, where they didn't hold absolute power and people were free to express not communist opinions and counter propaganda. In Soviet Russia methods were very different, although also there Stalin always started a smear campaign against his future victims before eliminating them, for example like he did with Yagoda, Bukharin, and most notably Trotsky.

And there is really nothing strange in a western corporation using soviet propaganda techniques, some of them worked quite well to persuade million simpletons people.

BTW, I always clearly wrote "propaganda", pure words and nothing else, not violent methods.

So going by your assumption, MS is currently spreading propaganda about Sony and Nintendo in an attempt to bring them down in the eyes of the public? Before attempting to go for the undercut? That sound insane if you thinkg about it.

And I think such methods existed even before Stalin, it is always the norm to bring down the opposition in the eyes of the public before making a move that may end them.

If anything, the attacks in regards to Kinect needing a controller in order to work properly by Sony or several articles that were posted before, slating Kinect could fall into that category. If it is a practice a you are suggesting, it's a common one, every company does it, so I don't see the reason to single out MS in this case.

Just to clarify, I do not like MS, I like 360 and PS3 to some extent, but when people making assumptions like that it's only logical to correct them in a sense that everyone does it.