Our Articles About SLAPPs Receive Recognition and Interest
Photo: M. K. Gandhi 1915
Yesterday this site served close to 2 million Web requests, but we have good reasons to assume many of these requests were from scrapers, possibly LLM parasites. Despite all this, the site was still responsive (as fast as usual) and we didn't need to interfere (e.g. block/throttle down some IP blocks). It's very different when there's some back end with programs that prepare "on-the-fly" or "dynamic" pages. CDNs can be bypassed in all sorts of ways, so they have their technical, real-world limitations.
We recently became aware that our series about SLAPPs, based on our own experiences (which we shall cover for years to come), attracts the attention of legal professionals in the UK and outside the UK. We experienced the same thing when we began covering EPO scandals, based on whistleblowers, way back in 2014. Some people in the profession or that microcosms wanted to know more or wanted to read some more about what they already knew but would rather not speak about (in public).
This week we shall continue writing about the 3 lawsuits we filed [1, 2, 3] and serial facilitators of men who oppress and SLAPP women (that particular barrister and law firm have long done this; they profit from targeting vulnerable women on behalf of wealthy men). The goal is to shed light on a disturbing pattern in the UK and eventually point the finger at culprits (or a system which fails women, especially as many of them are unable to afford legal services).
That these matters are attracting public scrutiny is great. With scrutiny change can come. Reform becomes more feasible. In the UK, it is overdue. Behind the scenes we already work with British authorities. They listen to us.
The blueprint of abusive litigation is somewhat of a public interest (broader interest), as is the aspect of abuse by Microsofters who try to kill BSD and GNU/Linux. They misuse courts to silence critics and they engages in online defamation, which only slowed down because of the lawsuits we had filed. █