Lasse Fister, Organiser of Libre Graphics Meeting, Points Out the Code of Conduct is Likely Violated by the Same People Who Promote Codes of Conduct (and Then Bully Him Into Cancelling a Keynote)
Related: Social Control Media: Where 'Cancel Culture' Thrives (brigading people)
Looking through comments this morning (I seldom bother following anything in social control media; it's typically worse than a waste of time), I am starting to see Lasse Fister as another victim because he did attempt to hit back against the cancel mob, which included none other than GNOME's co-founder (it's always GNOME, born in the capital of journalists' murder and femicide) citing an attack site made by an an actual pervert. It's something we need to document, including this one:
And this:
Perhaps this shows that projects and announcements should not be in social control media. It facilitates toxic behaviour.
We're archiving the whole thread in case some people later try to delete what they did and said.
7 years ago an event organiser (SELF) said: "Yeah, so, unbelievably I was actually threatened in private at other events for this for not having a code of conduct that some people deemed acceptable. And not from random people the very first person to threaten me has been a speaker at SELF I think every year and because I accept talks blindly they keep getting talks because I'm not holding that against them because I don't know who they are when I select the talks. So if nothing else you can't accuse me of bias in selecting speakers given that I keep selecting a speaker who threatened me. There's the downside by the way of selecting blind. But because of this when I go to other events to promote SELF or to speak I simply do not have private conversations with strangers any more even people who I somewhat know I will keep other people around me to be witnesses now and it's terribly tragic that I even have to say that and it's even more tragic that if you go looking around online I am not the only one who does that any more and that's even more sad. Given that I got a nasty backlash simply for not having a Code of Conduct that a lawyer told me you would be a fool to have, I started asking why are people pushing this what's the real message here? And if you start looking around online Googling for Codes of Conduct and insert your own pejorative here, cons, downsides, alternative views, it's hard not to eventually stumble into a guy named Paul M Jones. He is apparently somewhat infamous as someone who is a vociferous advocate against some Codes of Conduct."
Doesn't seem like manners at all. These are mob tactics. █