Freedom of Speech... Let's Ban All Software Freedom Speeches?
"Freedom of speech big baby
(There's cop haters) freedom of speech
(They goin' against society I
Don't understand the music, it's too loud)
Outlawz! (It' too loud, it's too rowdy
It's too violent, Let's ban all rap music)
Outlawz
(Ban 2Pac, ban the Outlaw Immortalz Ban 'em)"
Today we'll publish several more videos and we've begun inquiring about the canceled talk of RMS. If we receive some credible information, we will likely cover this in weekends as I am catching up with links while thinking, as in processing inside my head, who could have canceled that talk. We're already guessing in IRC, but we need evidence, not speculation/s. Last week and the week before that I spent 1-2 hours per day (a bit less than that lately) 'researching' IBM layoffs and we'll publish something related to this very soon. We're interested in what happens when they buy companies such as Red Hat (especially how they devour, exploit, and lay off staff).
The IBM posts are a "work in progress". There is plenty of gossip this month, but we need proof.
For evidence-backed material, stay tuned for future posts about the EPO and GitHub. I am very satisfied seeing the amount of notes we have. These serve to assure us that we many new topics to cover in the future; it's just a question of what to publish and when. We still sit on GitHub and EPO troves and there are 'insurance' files, too.
Attempts to deplatform us have mostly ended (the cancel mob gave up) and we'll explain this over the next 3-4 week (Monday series). This year will be calm and uneventful in the cancel mob sense, but we'll explain a lot of what happened last year. We don't want to waste much energy on these idiots, but the very least we can do is explain how they operate. The cancel mob fakes "ethics" whilst doing highly unethical and sometimes illegal things.
At the moment not many people write about cancel mobs. The one who still does and asks to be proven wrong [1, 2] is a tad too extreme and comes from Microsoft.
The one upside of so few (scarce) sites like ours is, sources/leakers often turn to us because they have nowhere else to turn to (with trust and confidence; we have 100% source protection record).
To us, the important thing is, everything to be said assertively in article form (not IRC channels; they're informal) is accurate and, if it is an opinion, it must be presented and such as be possible to defend (upon challenge). Because then it's hard to attack the message, the evidence, and the messenger (ad homimen is losing bid too).
There are currently several ongoing attempt to silence Free software luminaries and opinionated developers (see WIPO UDRP D2024-0770). It's important to bring attention to these as they lessen the potential to cancel. █