Letter 'A' prohibited by Code of Conduct extremism
Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock.
18:00 Thu, 19 Mar 2026
While some of us use our computers for work, there is a growing army of extremists who are nitpicking the content of web pages and then running a pestering campaign to have certain pages censored in various ways.
Here we can see they took issue with the letter 'a' in Ian. Can one letter of the alphabet really violate the Code of Conduct gaslighting?
They have submitted a DMCA (Copyright) complaint to Google LLC. It is published by Lumen. It claims to be on behalf of somebody called lou michelle but that may be a sock puppet.
The complaint includes a list of URLs spanning 43 different domain names. In the domain uncensored.deb.ian.community they asked to redact the letter 'a' in Ian for users in Germany. Please see nazi.compare before they ban that too.
Remember many of the people who died have contributed their effort to Debianism because they believed it would sustain free speech. Read the detailed history of Adrian von Bidder-Senn, the Debian Developer who died on our wedding day.
The best way to encourage people to nominate for the election will be for the existing leader, Andreas Tille, to withdraw all the privacy attacks, settle the lawsuits proactively and ensure the next leader can walk in and find the desk is clean ready to work on productive things.
Don't hold your breath waiting for transparency about these attacks on my family. There is still time to watch my video and contribute to the crowdfunding campaign. █