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SLAPP Censorship - Part 24 Out of 200: The Failed Effort by Brett Wilson LLP to Strike Out My Lawsuit and My Wife's Lawsuit Against Garrett (the Master Allowed Our Lawsuits to Proceed)

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Mar 26, 2026

Also a document that covers the way Garrett was clearly hijacking the identity of another person in our IRC network; we'll soon show raw logs exposing his bad online behaviour in IRC (specifically impersonation).

John Stables

In January 2025 a High Court Master (judge) dealt with a rather shallow (nitpicking) challenge to our counterclaim [1, 2] and requested documents - in some cases documents the requester already had. Our solicitor opined they were trying to drain out our funds (budget) by invoking processes that would be rather costly (in reality, Garrett ran out of money well before we did; it's just that he then sought help from other people [1, 2], which isn't illegal but is frowned upon as it renders him an instrument of censorship, i.e. they're instrumentalising him to try to punish us). It should be noted almost at the same time he brought the Serial Strangler from Microsoft to volley another lawsuit our way (we'll show the full timeline some time soon), then repeatedly lied to several judges about the coordination between them. So two Americans connected to Microsoft basically kept flinging more and more costs at us, collectively (both of them) attempting to settle (on censorship) at least half a dozen times throughout. Begging didn't work, so "generous" offers (threats!) were attempted instead. Why does our system even entertain people like Donald Trump attacking British publishers? It's already becoming a matter of national security and we've got some politicians involved. We now get to tell our story about what was done to us. It's well overdue.

It should again be noted that our barrister (originally from Ofcom) felt very strongly about these abusive cases (by men with a history of abuse) and said that after handling hundreds of cases this was the most outrageous one he ever dealt with and the clients of Brett Wilson LLP deserved absolutely nothing, not even injunctions. That's what he said.

Gaming the British legal system from America (even against my British wife) is a low blow and something that the British people ought to be fully aware of, more so knowing third parties (we assume rich Americans, not British people) funded this to the tune of hundreds of thousands of pounds (we can estimate these costs because they were legally required to disclose cost estimates as part of the process/protocol). Like the previous part showed, we've correctly predicted for 2 years already that third parties were funding this litigation, yet Brett Wilson LLP kept defaming me for saying this (they knew what I said was true, but they kept resorting to insulting, derogatory name-calling, as usual from such smug hired guns, who would do anything to bend/twist the law).

Anonymous threats to remove articles about Brett Wilson LLP (sent to me from burner accounts) merely embolden us and vindicate us. Is this a law firm or an underworld in "law firm" clothing? Are we meant to keep silent about very clear injustice just because we receive threats from those too conscious of their precious brand?

Today we present our barrister's response to requests the Americans made [PDF]. This isn't secret, it's a document one can retrieve, but login barriers make it harder for most people to obtain. Litigation transparency is paramount when the aim is to illuminate abusive litigation and abusive American litigants who game the foreign system to censor people in another continent. They love choosing a plaintiff-friendly media/defamation tribunal, just like American patent trolls like to file patent lawsuits in Texas.

The Defendants make the general and over-arching observation that most of the requests made by the Claimant are wasteful and improper. The Claimant already knows much of the information he seeks because it has been published in the Publications complained of. Further, the Claimant makes Requests for information created by him and that is in his possession and control and that he not only knows but should gather for disclosure.

Save for the meanings pleaded at paragraphs 15.2.3, 15.3.2, 15.4.2, 15.11.2 and 15.18.1, the Defendants admit that all of the meanings pleaded in the Defence and Counterclaim at paragraphs 15.1 to 15.19 and their subparagraphs are defamatory of the Claimant at common law.

The muting of the Claimant happened in or about 2020 or 2021 and was doneby a moderator after the Claimant’s persistent interference with and derailingof purely technical discussions by his intervening with talk about sex and other irrelevant and offensive matters. The Claimant engaged in this mischief using his authenticated – i.e. real – IRC account name. The Claimant did not deny responsibility. The Claimant’s behaviour was deemed obnoxious by an experienced moderator, in post since 2009. The Defendants’ firm free speech-based policy was not to ban posters outright and so the Defendants chose to silence the Claimant’s disruptive messages instead. These events are sufficiently old that the Defendants do not retain the data which affirmsthe dates of the decisions to mute. The Defendants question the purpose of this Request: if the Claimant denies any misuse of the IRC channels, the information requested can be of no relevance to him and would appear to be a means merely to vex the Defendants and put them to time, effort and cost for no proper reason.

(a) The Claimant sent an email to the Defendants’ current webhost on 30 September 2023. (b) In the email of 30 September 2023 the complaint objected to, and listed, URLs of articles published by the Defendants exposing the Claimant’s activities. The complaint objected to the articles as untrue and harassing, but gave no reasoned objection or detail in rebuttal.

(c)(d)Approximately a year earlier, in respect of a previous webhost, theClaimant uploaded a pre-action letter to his personal website for the webhost to see. He announced this publication of a legal letter in the publicly logged IRC channel of Techrights, available for all users to see. The webhost expressed her fear of becoming dragged into legal action (she did so in person to the First Defendant). The site was hosted freeof charge at the time, recognising the site’s importance, and was provided with many services pro bono.The complaint by email of 30 September 2023 was rejected by the current webhost. The Defendants question the purpose of these Requests. The email wassent by the Claimant. The Claimant posted his own letter of claim on hisown website. The Claimant knows the facts of these publications. These requests would appear to be a means merely to vex the Defendants and put them to time, effort and cost for no proper reason.

The data recording the username switching is not maintained or retained byIRC logs, but is available immediately (and temporarily, in real-time) to those operating the server. The Claimant will be fully aware of this technical matter. This Request has therefore been made for information that the Claimant knows cannot be retrieved, not least because of the age of the incidents ofname switching. The chain of name changes by the Claimant on the First Defendant’s IRC network has been thoroughly documented and published already as the Claimant is aware: see Publication 3. If a logged-in user changes to another name in “real-time” (i.e. user X is now known as Y), rather than logs off andlogs in again with a different name, it is proof that it is the same person operating under different usernames, i.e. switching between usernames.

The First Defendant emailed the Tor administrators at 11.16am on 21 August 2023. That email identified the Claimant as a mischief maker misusing the Tor network. As the Claimant knows, this is a pointless question asked only to waste the Defendants’ time and money: Tor – like Tails (an operating system pre-loaded with Tor) – keeps its staff anonymous. The email contact with Tor is frontdesk@torproject.org. There is no named individual who can be contacted. The Claimant is fully aware of this, not least because the Claimant’s spouse does work or has worked for Tor. The Claimant’s sock puppet messages subsided very shortly after the email of 21 August 2023 was sent to Tor and the First Defendant madeit known on his Techrights website that he had reported the matter to Tor. Over the ensuing days it was clear that the Claimant’s activities hadbeen curtailed. Further, the Defendants received confidential messages indicating that the Claimant’s activity using Tor had been discussed online, confidentially. The sources of these messages will be withheldby the Defendants. No reply was sought from Tor and none was received.

 Re 15.27.8, the Claimant posted under the username mjg59_ on the First Defendant’s IRC network, “maybe 2023 is the year where I’ll finally suffer the consequences of my actions” on 1 January 2023 at 10.04pm. This was documented and published in Publication 17 as the Claimant knows. Re 15.27.9, the Claimant posted under the username mjg59_ on the First Defendant’s IRC network, “Really should stop switching between machines that have ctrl in different places”. This was documented and published in Publications 10 and 11 as the Claimant knows. This message was posted.on 5 March 2023 at 07:05.Re 15.27.10, the Claimant’s admission of adopting other’s usernames was published in Publication 22, as the Claimant knows. In that exchange (page198 of Appendix 1 to the Particulars of Claim) the Claimant described that switching of usernames as “a satire” and “funny”. The date and time of thes emessages was 5 July 2023 between 7.21am and 7.26am. In any event, the Claimant has switched usernames within the IRC network many, many times. The Publications substantiate that allegation at length.

TheClaimant’s blog contains the text, “Debian-the-distribution makes me want to stab people, even though I've just spent a lovely weekend with Debian-the-people. Perhaps worse, I occasionally find mails I've sent that make me want to stab me.”The Defendants reserve the right to produce evidence of other statements by the Claimant as substantiation of his fixation with blade sand violence on disclosure, although the Claimant should discharge his obligation to disclose all such material in any event.

The reports were made to the police over the telephone (non-emergency line) starting in July and August 2023 spanning hours in total and involving calls made both by the police and to the police.

A pre-action letter from the firm Judge Sykes Frixou Limited was sent on 23 November 2021. Other letters were sent on other dates, as the Claimant knows. The Claimant must disclose these letters and his other communications with the Defendants that threaten legal action against them.

Re 33.2.2. Ted Tso: Ted Tso is regarded as the 'heir' of Torvalds. Tso has long supported Torvalds and his project management style (he spoke out in his support and insisted that Linux succeeded because of Torvalds’s sensible leadership). On his personal site and elsewhere the Claimant has for a long time sought to associate Tso with serious sexual crime. This vilification of Tso has been accompanied by the Claimant’s demands for disciplinary action of some kind against Tso. Re 33.2.3. Bruce Perens: Bruce Perens is considered the man behind 'Open Source'. Bruce Perens has supported Techrights since 2006 and has said on many occasions that the Claimant has defamed him and abused him. Without prejudice to the width and detail of the witness evidence that may be given (by Mr Perens or by any other witness as to the Claimant’s bad reputation), the following link is to a webpage on which the Claimant says of Bruce Perens, “If you feel the need to punch them, then it's generally the real Bruce Perens.”

Request 19 has been abandoned by the Claimant.

The Defendants sought to mitigate the Claimant’s use of sock-puppet accounts and mute the offending messages on many dozens of occasions. The action was taken on some of these occasions by moderators.

Notice how they abandoned some of their own requests, perhaps realising how foolish and self-defeating those vexing requests were. Sort of like they de facto abandoned meritless claims of UKGDPR violations [1, 2] (they themselves violated my own privacy and even family members').

To be clear, this is all in the record (proceedings) and is permissible to reproduce. If some law firm engages in abusive litigation for bad people from another continent and then tries to drown out the defendant with an additional abusive claim (connected to the first) to game the system and 'win' the case, it does not then follow that it should be permitted to hide its abuses. It's in the public interest and a matter of national security for people to witness this behaviour, which regulators and politicians observe and seek to eventually tackle. This particular law firm has long worked for highly corrupt and abusive companies from other continents to bully and silence whistleblowers. In order to tackle crime we need to explain how law firms which take thugs (one for example in prison for strangulation in Texas) as clients to bully those who merely report the facts, volleying over 75 KG of legal papers their way. This is lawfare.

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