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Phoronix Deletes Pages About Allegedly Criminal Behaviour by [Name Redacted] 14 Years Afterwards (There Must Have Been Threats Sent to Take Those Pages Down)

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jan 11, 2024

The "Ontario Criminal" (as we casually call [Name Redacted] in IRC) is trying to delete the past

Burnout

NOT to our surprise, [Name Redacted] sent messages to Phoronix (no other reasonable explanation) to wipe out evidence of what happened 14 years ago. We've thankfully backed up those pages because [Name Redacted] has been - and still is - engaging in criminal activity against my wife and I. Here are some of the pages in question [1, 2] (notice that as of days ago they're removed).

So after this censorship we'll rely on local copies [1, 2, 3, 4], which are not just legal but also essential to retain (we have no "right to be forgotten" over here and nobody is exempted from accountability).

Here are some highlights:

Several months ago, I received an email from Mr. [Name Redacted] in connection with a site I run. I requested, and received, his permission to republish his email, which I did.

Mr. [Name Redacted] subsequently decided that he didn't want me to publish his email after all. Since "the horse was out of the gate" at that point, and since I had taken his permission to be sincere and freely given, I refused.

Mr. [Name Redacted] then sent my ISP what he imagined was a DMCA complaint. I responded to it (while in Tokyo on business, at 3 in the morning), and no further action was taken.

Mr. [Name Redacted] then somehow came into possession of a photograph of me which I had only published on Facebook, through circumstances which remain unclear. He defaced it and republished it, and I was obliged to serve a DMCA complaint on him, and the photograph was taken down. No counter-notification was provided. During this period, Mr. [Name Redacted] expressed his intention to use the photograph in a "comic strip" he had in mind.

Mr. [Name Redacted] then provided my ISP with a second, this time closer-to-correct, DMCA infringement notice regarding his email. I complied with the terms of the act and filed a counter-notification, stating in detail my reasoning in believing that Mr. [Name Redacted]'s claim was erroneous, and took the material down for 14 business days, during which time Mr. [Name Redacted] was obligated to either institute actual legal action, or forfeit his claim. He took no action, and the material went back up.

Since that time, Mr. [Name Redacted] has used the IDs "ender2070" (now deleted) and "boycottlefty" to harass and defame me, sending messages claiming that I'm a drug addict and a pedophile.

Further, he carried through with his previous intention and put up a blog at boycottlefty.wordpress.com with a defamatory "comic strip" titled "Mono Rangers", in which he not only infringed the copyright of the same photograph which had been at issue earlier, but a second photograph (taken by professional James Duncan Davidson, and?as with my photos, with a clear "All rights reserved" copyright notice attached) of me, both defaced, and again suggesting that I was a drug addict.

I was again obliged to provide him with a DMCA infringement notice, this time via Wordpress.com, and again, the photos were taken down. No counter-notification was filed. Mr. [Name Redacted] however, maintains a public copy of this defamatory and infringing "comic strip" on a server which he describes as being "in Soviet Russia".

Now, Mr. [Name Redacted] is an ongoing participant in direct harassment of myself here, and via his web site and via defamatory emails to various third-parties whose email addresses he's collected from various press releases related to my employment, as well being as a participant in the criminal harassment of my family.

That's my side of the story. What's yours, Mr. [Name Redacted]?

[...]

The judge will have a hard time finding the word "irrevocable" in any of the permission you were given. He won't need to, Trust Me On This.

I guess if your legal counsel is guiding you this closely, then you must have also been acting under advice of your attorney when you made public claims that I was a drug addict, a pedophile, a pornographer, a cannibal, etc., right?

Misuse of DMCA and false accusations (like calling people "pedophiles" without any evidence whatsoever) is a pattern from [Name Redacted]. We'll show some newer examples this year. Not much has changed in 14 years; nothing at all. Defamatory attack sites are also still a thing.

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