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Professional Troll Matthew Garrett Spreads Libel, Defamation and Slander About the Free Software Community to Entertain Microsoft and Friends

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Summary: After months of parking in our IRC channels to provoke and troll people (and try to collect 'dirt' from responses) the professional troll Matthew Garrett has been for many years shows his true colours again

TWITTER is an epidemic. It's also censoring people who write about the pandemic, but that's another subject. I left Twitter a year ago (my account became write-only) because of this 'cancel culture' nonsense (people lying about one's position and then going 'viral' with their lies).



"These trolls try to muzzle their critics by any means possible while pocketing millions of dollars from monopolists that sponsor the trolling."For a while now I've warned that a Google-sponsored professional troll (with a track record) was looking for 'dirt' on us and was already libelling myself and the site in Twitter. It's reminiscent of what a similar mob (professionally-employed trolls) did to Richard Stallman in 2019.

The distortion of facts is not just incredible; it's also intentional, which is why the title of this post says "Libel, Defamation and Slander". We've notice for a while that Phoronix and Michael Larabel were targeted by a similar smear campaign, trying to hold people and sites accountable for views that aren't theirs or even the sites'.

Matthew Garrett a professional trollBut good news, everyone! Are you an Internet troll? Google is hiring. Salesforce is hiring. Monopolies want your help in their fight against communities and against anything grassroots which remains in Free software. No stone will be left unturned; they even tell us that Linus Torvalds, who lashes out at men most of the time, is somehow sexist (though he's married only with girls, one of whom a notable feminist).

People like these have long lost the technical argument (UEFI 'secure' boot has once again caused a very major security mess), so they turn to something else. These trolls try to muzzle their critics by any means possible while pocketing millions of dollars from monopolists that sponsor the trolling.

"Our world is not divided by race, color, gender, or religion. Our world is divided into wise people and fools. And fools divide themselves by race, color, gender, or religion."

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