Censored: Debian Zizian transgender vigilante comparisons in open source Linux communities
February 22, 2025
Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock.
On Wednesday I published a few carefully chosen words asking about any possible relationships and similarities between transgender phenomena in Debian and Zizian.
Those comments were quickly mentioned on other web sites and rose to the top of search results for a few hours. Shortly after that, all links to the articles, including my own article and articles on other web sites, had been censored from Google and other search engines.
If you go to Google, Bing or another search engine right now and search for similarities between Debian and Zizian then you will see some articles about Zizian but you are not allowed to see articles that mention both Debian and Zizian together.
Debian is encouraging physical violence
Some people have whinged that the vigilante activity in Debian is not comparable to Zizian because humiliating people like Dr Preining is not the same as killing people.
These rebuttals are nonsense.
When the rogue Debianists attacked Dr Jacob Appelbaum and his family with a gossip attack in 2016, it wasn't long before people were defacing his home with graffiti. Maybe the people who did the graffiti are not the same people who started the lies. That doesn't make any difference. When one person starts a smear about "behavior", "harassment" or any of the sly rumors used by serial liars, it is not long before somebody else loses their temper. Sadly, some people are really addicted to social media and when they see a rumor in social media their eyes glaze over and they attack the person named in the rumor.
The people who write these emails with carefully crafted insults and lies know that they have this impact. Even if they don't inflict acts of violence and vandalism themselves, the rogue Debianists are hand-in-hand responsible for those outcomes.
Censorship confirms cult comparisons are right on the money
When a blog is censored so quickly from search engines, it can mean only one of two things. Either the blog contained some kind of genitalia or the blog contained inconvenient truths about people affiliated with Google itself. The blogs containing these inconvient truths strike a chord with the people who are doing the wrong thing.
Take another look at the mentality of the Debian Anti-Harassment Team. The very name of the team is negative. It cultivates the us-and-them mentality. Whenever a disagreement occurs, the transgender person must be right and everybody else is wrong. If anybody disagrees with a transgender person, if anybody asks questions about the disproportionate amount of money allocated to diversity travel, the transgender people immediately start accusations of transphobia.
Asking about conflicts-of-interest is not harassment and it is not transphobia. Heterosexual couples are expected to answer exactly the same questions.
The names Zizian and Debian both have a similar ring to them. They both end in the -ian suffix. But the similarities in recruitment tactics, the similarities in the persecution complex, they all go a lot deeper.
Zizian is facing accusations of murder. Debian is facing the fact that some of the suicides were predicted and avoidable. In many countries, a predictable suicide is an avoidable death, in other words, it is a criminal act of manslaughter, the second most serious crime after murder.
The volunteer who died on our wedding day was discussed like a suicide. Shuttleworth acknowledged a heightened risk of suicide in the Debian environment. The next death was Adrian von Bidder on our wedding day. β