Series parts:

• Sceptical of Cancel Artists in Corporate Press
• Upcoming New Series: The Corporate 'Cancel Culture' Industry
• The Corporate 'Cancel Culture' Industry -- Part I: Somebody Wants to be Your 'Buddy'
• The Corporate 'Cancel Culture' Industry — Part II: People Who Defamed Linus Torvalds Say Torvalds Was “Grateful” for It
• The Corporate 'Cancel Culture' Industry — Part III: Non-Technical People Trying to Ruin the Lives of the Geeks
• The Corporate 'Cancel Culture' Industry — Part IV: Hit Pieces and Public Shaming as Bargaining Cards
• The Corporate 'Cancel Culture' Industry — Part V: Hit Piece Gone Wrong?
• YOU ARE HERE ☞ Examples of GNU and Linux Luminaries Targeted by Mobs

Debian also has its share of 'canceled' people

Summary: Voicing concerns about bad code or unethical conduct (by large corporations that sponsor a project) can cause forced resignations, public shaming, or even overt banishment; a Code of Censorship is usually being leveraged to justify this immoral silencing of conscientious whistleblowers, including project founders/leaders

THIS series has thus far focused on Linux, the Linux Foundation, and Linus Torvalds (attempts to 'cancel' him predate 2018). Along the way it also mentioned Richard Stallman, who in principle supports the free speech rights of Eric Raymond. For those who don't know, Mr. Raymond was basically banned by the very organisation that he co-founded. As another notable example, and in no way resembling the mindset of Mr. Raymond, we have Theodore Ts’o (Ted). We don't want to repeat false or trumped-up accusations, but let's just say that this input from Mr. Ts’o shows him defensive of Torvalds in the face of the mobs. Three years ago I took a screenshot of it:

Notice how they've utilised secret mailing lists (such as debian-private) to do their lynching. So much for transparency.

"Notice how they've utilised secret mailing lists (such as debian-private) to do their lynching. So much for transparency."So remember that those cancel mobs don't quite work out in the open; they often operate behind people's backs. When we published this in 2020 Torvalds responded in an article that quoted him. Either way, the practice is more widespread than people care to recognise, partly because much of the politicking happens behind the scenes, never to be seen by the general public. It's something we must all take into account.

With corrupt 'journalists' (phonies and imposters) it can become one heck of a jungle out there. Be sceptical of media funded by GAFAM and IBM. Its objective or its 'product' is not informing readers. It assigns staff writers to sell outcomes to sponsors/advertisers. ⬆