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'Anticapitalist' website owner in big bucks product placement

Anti-Hypocrite | 11.02.2008 12:24

Urban75 introduces mega corporate marketing through the back door

Urban75 owner Mike Slocombe used the anticapitalist movement to launch and build his career and has always maintained that he will not sully his ethically pure operation with advertising money. So why is he pushing the latest Nokia mobile phone model like it's the Holy Grail? For further information see the links below.

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www.urban75.org/labels/nokia.html

www.urban75.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=239731

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Anti-hypocrite?

11.02.2008 12:59

You seem to labour under the illusion that the editor of Urban75 has in any way "used the anticapitalist movement to launch and build his career".

He's a web-designer who happens to run a website.

This type of petty jealousy is typical of the hate campaign against Urban75, for banning Mark Stephenson (annakey) and Lynn Jones (intostella) after they phoned the Inland Revenue and tried to grass up Mike Slocombe for alleged tax evasion. (Which turned out to be a false allegation).

You want anti-hypocrite? How about a self-proclaimed anarchist (annakey) calling the cops when he heard Urban75 members were meeting up in Devon and hoped they'd be busted for drugs? (They weren't).

How about crying foul anytime you percieve "bullying" on Urban75 yet you have several "sock-puppet" accounts on your website with the sole intention of ridiculing people.

Mark and Lynn - You need to get over your weird obsession with Mike Slocombe, and also perhaps you need to look into your own situation as regards benefit fraud and claiming housing benefit when you live in a squat.

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Dr Olaf Popinjay


So

11.02.2008 13:02

Does the poster have no use or interest in any product produced within capitalist society? Stop using that computer then.


B


...?

11.02.2008 13:18

i personally dont know or care wtf all this cyber-beef is all about...

...however, in my brief encounters with urban75 it suprises me that product placement is being used.

and despite whatever mudslinging is going on, you can deny thats pretty crap.

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another view

11.02.2008 13:23

I wonder what is worse a bulletin board taking the odd advert to pay the bills and keep the site up or a newswire hosting anti-semitic fuckwits and holocaust deniers to further the politcial aims of an admin ?

pot. kettle, black


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Just a thought

11.02.2008 13:26

Perhaps those who are bitching about this could send Mike some money and then he'll be able to pay the bills

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Product placement??

11.02.2008 13:57

A few pics taken at a party hardly constitute product placement.

A large part of the Urban75 website is for technical reviews of computer, phone and camera equipment - there are no favoured manufacturers and no sponsorship deals - i.e. no money is given to Urban75 in exchange for an advert or favourable review.

This is simply another Mark Stephenson lie, just like the racist accusations he has made in the past about there being no black people at Urban75's social events (which is simply not held out as a cursory glance as the party photos will prove).

No platform for racist losers on Urban75, hence Mark AKA annakey gets booted out, loses the plot and then spends over two years (so far) trying to get back at Mike Slocombe and Urban75.

It's hardly the behaviour of a 50 year old man, is it Mark?

Dr Olaf Popinjay


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Product placement

11.02.2008 14:27

"i personally dont know or care wtf all this cyber-beef is all about... "

Me neither. It's a smokescreen to obscure the real issue: big anti-capitalist noise attends Nokia champagne reception on Sunday. Big anti-capitalist noise plugs Nokia on his website on Monday. At best an unfortunate coincidence, at worst a cynical product placement exercise.

Product placement


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