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SLAPP Censorship - Part 79 Out of 200: They Will Soon Reach the 100 KG (Kilograms) Milestone; Wheelbarrows, Not Justice (Quantity of Legal Papers Sent to Us)

posted by Roy Schestowitz on May 17, 2026,
updated May 17, 2026

It's about the quality, not quantity (unless your sole aim is to drown out or "flood the zone")

“Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.” ― Napoleon Bonaparte

Whatever you have to say was lost in the sheer quantity of paper.

Shovels And Pickaxe In Wheelbarrow

Production Versus Reproduction

As a blogger, what I do is write stuff. I write a lot of stuff. It's what I do. I've done this for over two decades. What I write isn't random and there are themes that recur or get revisited. We develop an understanding of particular topics with participation by others. The ideas can evolve that way. The ideas are communicated outwards and are a soft of 'feedback loop'.

To lawyers, printing other people's worthwhile work (or just sending many random PDFs to printers, calling them "authorities") gives a false sense of productivity. No, they didn't contribute even a word to those PDFs, but it gives a sense of volume. They'd even add a single sentence to a new page just to increase total page counts (so they can charge more money). These are widespread issues the general public deserves to know about. It's also related to LLM slop - a subject we shall tackle some other day (or month).

Drowning in One's Own Papers

A month ago it was made utterly clear and obviously relevant; Garrett and Graveley (or their spokesperson) deemed it important to make excuses (to the judge) for the ludicrous amounts of paper sent to a modest couple in Manchester, which does not run a business and does not have legal representation. People who work in law firms can estimate how many pages make up 100 kilograms. Or even just 10 kilograms.

This isn't about winning a case but about "flooding the zone" (to borrow a phrase from MAGAts - it's about using sheer quantity of nonsense to dilute or drown out actual information). In over 2 years we've probably sent no more than a few kilograms of papers (maybe 1-2 KG), compared to 85+ KG from them. If one adds up what they sent to the Court, then it's probably close to 130 KG. Who has time to read all this? And why are we even referring to A4-sized papers (quantifying them) in measures of metric weight? Some are double-sided! We'll give a practical and year-old example below (in a nutshell, expecting a judge to go through about a thousand pages for a short telephone conference; I provided just a 1.5-page summary, which the judge found helpful).

Respect for the Court Means Concision

Judges need all the important information to be available before them. Dumping "books" at them prevents quick comprehension of key issues.

It might be helpful to take a moment to respond to misinformation from Garrett without giving it (direct) air time; Garrett can barely keep it up (blog and Mastodon uptime is about 80%), he is repeatedly gloating and publicly boasting (in social control media) that he wants to put my wife and I in prison (no worse than other threats we've received) and now he publicly admits that it is extremely unlikely to actually happen (so why put in the draft order sent to the Court something you deem extremely unlikely? Because it's "funny"?). This seems disrespectful to the Court (which to them is based in another continent). It almost looks like they are "trolling" the British High Court. They instrumentalise its existence for harassment purposes. It is sometimes called "harassment by proxy".

He is correct about that "P thing" (penal) being extremely unlikely. And he is still bashful about putting his hand on the Bible and then spouting out contradictory statements under interrogation (by my wife and I).

Does he consciously lose sight of who's really at risk now?

In a nutshell, he's just bullying people online (also defaming them, e.g. RMS). He has done this to many people for at least two decades. He's a paper tiger with a huge ego and Twitter (or similar) account, which gets leveraged for what's known as "brigading". This is online abuse and excusing it as "humour" or "haha, it's funny!" won't work; it won't amuse judges. It did not abuse the judge at the trial and even if violent language amuses you, it won't amuse the people it is about. To be clear, Garrett works with violent people.

Honesty and Facts

So let's be very clear here.

It's not us who lied to judges, it is him and Graveley [1, 2] (and the fall guy of Brett Wilson LLP), so he is merely projecting and it is them who are at risk from courts, police, and regulators. This is unfair.

If you want the facts, then follow what we not only say in some "tweets" but show in length with accompanying evidence.

Also, just to put things in perspective, there's a key thing that he dreads people finding out about. He knew his lawsuit was bunk. His actions were a giveaway right from the very start (2021). Let's go through easily verifiable history below.

Six or Seven Attempts by Garrett to Settle the Lawsuit He Himself Started (He Wanted 'Out')

Like Graveley (his litigation buddy), in 2023, in 2024, and in 2025 Garrett attempted to settle with us at least 6 times, probably 7 times all in all. It's feasible to count every time and prove it. He would rather pretend that we cannot talk about it, but just because he attaches secrecy clauses to his offers (which we didn't consent to; such clauses - like press embargoes - are a two-way street) doesn't mean it didn't happen. We can produce hard proof of it, but it would be premature and disrespectful to standard protocols. Unlike what his hired guns had him believe, offers to settle do make one look weak, as does the choice of a low-cost barrister and very low/small court fee (about 1% the money the lawsuit would cost him all in all). Put another way, it's like in martial arts where you show all your weaknesses to the opponent, as in this case you show up for a battle saying in public it would be "funny", you pay almost bare minimum for a new case (like you don't plan to actually fight/pursue) and when things get tough you willingly associate with - and even coordinate with - a Microsofter who was arrested for violence against women. All those tactical mistakes add up and wrinkle like the cheap suit you wear, sir. And yes, I am 100% permitted to point out the settlement offers in public. Likewise, I cannot 'unsee' (based on the disclosures) that you communicated with a Canadian who committed cybercrimes against my wife (several cases against this person in the police).

Print, Print, Print. The Only Thing You Know.

Words are cheap, papers and printouts are cheaper (mostly printing my own words, which makes it look like the copyright bears 'teeth'), not to mention thousands of pages of binary slop that would be of no use in trial but merely fill up large carton boxes. It's about optics. We'll write about this in the future. You clearly aren't checking what you print out!

Garrett Touched the Bible

Does it hurt when I say it? Well, unlike Garrett, I don't use some really rude and child-unfriendly language (which this site won't even repeat). His own mouth has been his own worst enemy and the judge in the trial took note of his rude communication style. And yes, he did in fact touch the Bible, everyone there saw it, he just doesn't want people online to know that (it served to un-affirm his claims about rejecting religion). So ouch, touché. One cannot change history with a "tweet". Checking the Techrights site all day long (cognitive burden), trying to ambush us by nitpicking minor details, won't change history. Transcripts aren't CCTV footage.

Stop lying.

Garrett Supports SLAPP and Chose a SLAPP Maximalist Law Firm

Meanwhile his hired guns in London are trying to interject their own "misleading narrative", wherein the victims are people who strangle women and the real problem is bloggers who mention that. Based on this new report ("Top libel lawyers ‘killed off’ legislation to protect public interest reporting"): "Claimant lawyers argued SLAPP debate is based on "misleading narrative"" (they are projecting).

The most vocal (or one of the most vocal) firm in support of SLAPPs is Brett Wilson LLP. They keep blasting politicians who speak about SLAPPs as a problem.

From what we can gather, the main skill of the above hired guns is reading, saving, then printing my work. Then sending a judge about 1,000 pages for a one-hour meeting, as noted in my counterclaim last July:


 

Appendix VIII: Unfair Lawyering Up Against a Litigant in Person

 

The following list is not complete, but it covers the bulk of the papers that Brett Wilson LLP threw at me and at the Judge for the Graveley Case:

 

  1. i.Letter of Claim: 10 pages 

  2. ii.The publication: 3 pages 

  3. iii.Schedule of further publications: 191 pages 

  4. iv.Claim form: 4 pages 

  5. v.Continuation Sheet to the Claim Form: 2 pages 

  6. vi.Assorted letters after that: about 10 pages 

  7. vii. Extortion attempt: 2 pages 

  8. viii.Lawsuit letter: 1 page 

  9. ix.Schedule of further publications: 191 pages 

  10. x.Claim form: 4 pages 

  11. xi.Continuation Sheet to the Claim Form: 2 pages 

  12. xii. Particulars of Claim: 10 pages 

  13. xiii.Response Pack: 7 pages 

  14. xiv.Assorted letters after that: about 20 pages 

  15. xv. Bundle for Hearing: 533 pages 

  16. xvi.N260: 5 pages 

  17. xvii.Skeleton arguments: 8 pages (2 added by me) 

  18. xviii.Index of authorities: 290 pages (21 added by me) 

 

  1. 1.That's just only up until the Hearing (there has been more since), not even counting any defence. If one adds pertinent E-mails to the above, then the grand total is around 1,400 pages. 

     

  2. 2.How many times in the past did a law firm push close to 1,400 pages to a Defendant and to the Court before a defence was even served? This seems absurd and abusive. The very facilitation of such a case is also abusive, possibly amounting to a misuse of licence if not professional misconduct. 


Based on a communication they sent for the Serial Strangler from Microsoft some days ago, we might soon exceed 100KG of legal papers (sent our way). If they go out of business, which seems inevitable (income drought), at least they'll be able to boast about breaking "paper records" - whatever that even means. Who would be impressed by this? The toner industry? Couriers?

Previously:

2026-03-03 Microsofters' SLAPP Censorship - Part 1 Out of 200: Claim No. KB-2024-001270 in a Nutshell
2026-03-04 Microsofters' SLAPP Censorship - Part 2 Out of 200: Detailed Timeline From 2012 (Attack on Reporters That Question Restricted Boot) to 2024 (Lawsuit Against Reporter and His Wife in Another Continent)
2026-03-05 Microsofters' SLAPP Censorship - Part 3 Out of 200: A More In-Depth Breakdown
2026-03-06 Microsofters' SLAPP Censorship - Part 4 Out of 200: Rianne’s Version of Events and Narrative
2026-03-07 Microsofters' SLAPP Censorship - Part 5 Out of 200: Clearly Not a Security Professional/Expert, Only Ever Pretending to be One
2026-03-08 Microsofters' SLAPP Censorship - Part 6 Out of 200: Intentionally Misnaming Women, People Who Offered to Testify That They Too Had Been Subjected to Similar Abuse
2026-03-09 Microsofters' SLAPP Censorship - Part 7 Out of 200: Like With the Serial Strangler From Microsoft, Misuse of UK-GDPR to Try to Hide Embarrassing Facts
2026-03-10 Microsofters' SLAPP Censorship - Part 8 Out of 200: Gross Misuse of UKGDPR to Protect the Agenda of American Back Doors (Mass Surveillance)
2026-03-11 Microsofters' SLAPP Censorship - Part 9 Out of 200: 5RB Barrister Does Not Even Know the Name of His Own Client (That He Was Paid Well Over $200,000 to 'Speak' or 'Cover' for)
2026-03-12 Microsofters' SLAPP Censorship - Part 10 Out of 200: Showing Public Tweets is Not a Privacy Violation, But This Isn't About Justice, It's About Censorship
2026-03-13 Microsofters' SLAPP Censorship - Part 11 Out of 200: Cannot Censor His Spouse, Accusations Are Repeated Today
2026-03-14 Microsofters' SLAPP Censorship - Part 12 Out of 200: Months Ahead of Serial Strangler From Microsoft Who Helped Double the Lawsuits (Funded by Third Parties) as 'Revenge' for Exposing Crimes
2026-03-15 Microsofters' SLAPP Censorship - Part 13 Out of 200: Abuse of Process to Make False Accusations of UKGDPR Violations
2026-03-16 Microsofters' SLAPP Censorship - Part 14 Out of 200: The Abusive Cases of the Serial Strangler From Microsoft and His Litigation Buddy Garrett Did Cause "Serious Harm"
2026-03-17 Microsofters' SLAPP Censorship - Part 14 Out of 200: Men Who Strangle Women (and Worse) Trying to Force Us to Write Public Apologies to These Men
2026-03-18 SLAPP Censorship - Part 15 Out of 200: Background and Particulars of Truth Regarding Techrights and Tux Machines
2026-03-19 SLAPP Censorship - Part 16 Out of 200: Detailing the Actors and Explaining Techrights' Own Internet Relay Chat (IRC) Network
2026-03-20 SLAPP Censorship - Part 17 Out of 200: A Long Track Record of Online Abuse, Then Choosing a Low-Cost Law Firm to Muzzle People Who Have Illuminated This Abuse for Over a Decade
2026-03-21 SLAPP Censorship - Part 18 Out of 200: Third Parties Funding Attacks on the Messengers, Lawsuits Against GAFAM-Critical Voices That Uphold Real National Security
2026-03-22 SLAPP Censorship - Part 19 Out of 200: They Were Ill-prepared for Tough Questions in Cross-Examination
2026-03-23 SLAPP Censorship - Part 20 Out of 200: All Roads Lead to Rome and to GAFAM Funding
2026-03-24 SLAPP Censorship - Part 21 Out of 200: It's About Behaviour Online, Not How Much Money From Shadowy Third Parties Gets Spent on Lawyers and Two Barristers
2026-03-24 SLAPP Censorship - Part 22 Out of 200: When You Complain People Impersonate You in IRC (But You Yourself Impersonate People in IRC and Lock Them Out of Their IRC Handles)
2026-03-25 SLAPP Censorship - Part 23 Out of 200: We Were Right All Along (for 2 Years) About Third Party Funding and Willingness to 'Break the Bank' in Pursuit of "Revenge"
2026-03-26 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)
2026-03-27 SLAPP Censorship - Part 25 Out of 200: That Time Matthew J. Garrett Got Temporarily Banned/Suspended From Twitter
2026-03-28 SLAPP Censorship - Part 26 Out of 200: Asking for Documents and Information You Already Have, Even Letters and E-mails That You Yourself Sent!
2026-03-29 SLAPP Censorship - Part 27 Out of 200: Using the Tor Network to Hide From Consequences
2026-03-30 SLAPP Censorship - Part 28 Out of 200: Facing Consequences for Impersonation and Worse
2026-03-31 SLAPP Censorship - Part 29 Out of 200: Violent Language Won't Go Away When You Use It in Your Site, Blog, and Social Control Media
2026-04-01 SLAPP Censorship - Part 30 Out of 200: The Time We Reported Abuse to Greater Manchester Police (GMP) and It Was Escalated to Its Cybercrime Unit
2026-04-02 SLAPP Censorship - Part 31 Out of 200: Speaking About 20+ Years of Alleged Harassment/Defamation and High-Profile 'Targets' of Garrett
2026-04-03 SLAPP Censorship - Part 32 Out of 200: Garrett Made Spurious Requests (Later Withdrawn) the Same Week Someone He Later Spoke to by E-mail Sent Threats to Our Webhost
2026-04-03 SLAPP Censorship - Part 33 Out of 200: Garrett Sued by My Wife and I, Then His Microsoft Acquaintance Files Another Lawsuit and Our Webhost Receives Legal Threats Too
2026-04-04 SLAPP Censorship - Part 34 Out of 200: The Necessity of Transparency, Illuminating Garrett's and Graveley's 'Tag-Team' Act, Misusing the British Docket (From Far Away in America) in Efforts to Hide Bad Behaviour
2026-04-05 SLAPP Censorship - Part 35 Out of 200: How to Make ~10,000 Pound Sterling (13,220.50 United States Dollars) by Copy-Pasting and Editing 10 Pages
2026-04-06 SLAPP Censorship - Part 36 Out of 200: Claim KB-2024-003529 in a Nutshell (Microsoft Employee Does Terrible Things, Then Sues the Reporter in Another Continent)
2026-04-07 SLAPP Censorship - Part 37 Out of 200: The Correct Suspicion Garrett and Graveley Were Collaborating in Overseas Litigation Against Critics
2026-04-08 SLAPP Censorship - Part 38 Out of 200: Advertisement or £10,000+ Classified Ad in the Form of Court Filing in Another Continent
2026-04-08 SLAPP Censorship - Part 39 Out of 200: Recycled Text for Garrett and Graveley (Buy One, Get One Free?)
2026-04-09 SLAPP Censorship - Part 40 Out of 200: Putting Forth Frivolous Claim Only a Few Days Before Running Out of Time (12 Months)
2026-04-10 SLAPP Censorship - Part 41 Out of 200: More Misuse of UK-GDPR (for US Citizens), More Copy-Pasting for Garrett and Graveley, Alleging That Publishing Unflattering Information is a 'Privacy' Issue
2026-04-10 SLAPP Censorship - Part 42 Out of 200: Getting the Very Basic Technical Concepts Very Wrong, or Where Miscomprehension Begets "Plausible Deniability"
2026-04-11 SLAPP Censorship - Part 43 Out of 200: Garrett and Graveley Particulars of Claims Almost Identical and 5RB Needs to Investigate Its Barristers (Its Reputation is at Stake)
2026-04-12 SLAPP Censorship - Part 44 Out of 200: Garrett and Graveley 'Copypasta' Sunday (Copy-Paste, Add One Word, Change 'T' to 't')
2026-04-13 SLAPP Censorship - Part 45 Out of 200: Garrett and Graveley Cases Inherently the Same, Their Legal Team Can Barely Even Distinguish (Full Timeline)
2026-04-14 SLAPP Censorship - Part 46 Out of 200: Alex Graveley's Attorney Rick Cofer Did Not Deny That Graveley Had Strangled Women; He Did, However, Pay Local Officials
2026-04-14 SLAPP Censorship - Part 47 Out of 200: British Courts Are Not Censorship Offices for Americans Funded by Affluent Third Parties
2026-04-16 SLAPP Censorship - Part 48 Out of 200: Brett Wilson LLP and 5RB Copy-Pasting Bogus Claims for Violent Americans (Microsoft) Who Tell Women to Kill Themselves
2026-04-17 SLAPP Censorship - Part 49 Out of 200: Two Americans, One Case, Recycled for Low Budget at Brett Wilson LLP and 5RB Barristers
2026-04-18 SLAPP Censorship - Part 50 Out of 200: The Time Staff of Law Firm Burgess Mee Was Showing Up in Letters Sent for a Serial Strangler From Microsoft
2026-04-19 SLAPP Censorship - Part 51 Out of 200: On Perjury and What It Means to Take Third-Party Funding to Attack Reporter and His Family (in Another Continent)
2026-04-20 SLAPP Censorship - Part 52 Out of 200: Phil Golding Appointed Bar Standards Board (BSB) Chief, Misogyny Must End
2026-04-21 SLAPP Censorship - Part 53 Out of 200: The Lying Solicitor of Alex Graveley Left Brett Wilson LLP Only Days or Few Weeks After the Garrett Trial (Attended by Almost Their Entire Office/Team)
2026-04-22 SLAPP Censorship - Part 54 Out of 200: Alex-Matt/Automate Twin Cases, Separated at Birth, Drafted by Brett Wilson LLP and 5RB
2026-04-23 SLAPP Censorship - Part 55 Out of 200: Strangled Women, Charged for Strangulation, Cannot Find a Job Now (After Microsoft)
2026-04-24 SLAPP Censorship - Part 56 Out of 200: 5RB and Brett Wilson LLP's Copy-Paste Machination for Garrett and Graveley
2026-04-25 SLAPP Censorship - Part 57 Out of 200: 5RB and Brett Wilson LLP Made the Garrett and Graveley Particulars of Claims a Lot Like Photocopies!
2026-04-26 SLAPP Censorship - Part 58 Out of 200: 5RB and Brett Wilson LLP Helped Garrett and Graveley Make Equivalent of GAFAM NDAs Superficially 'Enforceable' in the UK, Using Threats
2026-04-27 SLAPP Censorship - Part 59 Out of 200: Mentioning the Fact Alex Graveley Arrested and Charged for Strangulation in Texas is "Reckless" and "Malicious", According to His 'Hired Guns' in London
2026-04-28 SLAPP Censorship - Part 60 Out of 200: Talking About Corruption at Microsoft and Arrest for Strangulation is "Malice"
2026-04-29 SLAPP Censorship - Part 61 Out of 200: Garrett and Graveley Must Understand That Reporting Women's Issues in the United States of America (“the US”) is Not Impermissible
2026-04-30 SLAPP Censorship - Part 62 Out of 200: Garrett and Graveley Issue Astounding Copy-Paste Masterpiece Asserting Publicly-Accessible Embarrassing Facts Must Remain Hidden
2026-05-01 SLAPP Censorship - Part 63 Out of 200: Graveley as a Stripped-Down Version of Garrett in the Particulars of Claim (5RB Barrister Could Do This in One Minute)
2026-05-02 SLAPP Censorship - Part 64 Out of 200: Not Amused by Repeated Threats (to "Shut Down" My "Existence" While Mentioning My Wife Too)
2026-05-03 SLAPP Censorship - Part 65 Out of 200: Graveley and Garrett Claims Are Word-by-Word Similar (They Also Collaborated All Along)
2026-05-04 SLAPP Censorship - Part 66 Out of 200: Alex Graveley Did Illegal Things, Then Asserted Mentioning Those Illegal Things is Privacy Violation
2026-05-05 SLAPP Censorship - Part 67 Out of 200: Graveley and Garrett Claims Against My Wife and I Assert 'Distress', But It Was Just a Copy-Pasted Template (Mechanical Crocodile Tears)
2026-05-06 SLAPP Censorship - Part 68 Out of 200: Based on Their Particulars of Claims, Microsoft's Graveley and Garrett Seem Like the Same Person (Exactly Same Words Used, Sloppily Recycled)
2026-05-07 SLAPP Censorship - Part 69 Out of 200: Microsoft's Graveley Strangles, Gets Arrested, Charged, Then Asks for Apology From Those Who Reported It by Recycling Garrett's Plea for Apology
2026-05-08 SLAPP Censorship - Part 70 Out of 200: Microsoft's Graveley Injunction Request 100% the Same as Garrett's (Pure 'Copy-paste', Not Even a Word or Single Character Changed!)
2026-05-09 SLAPP Censorship - Part 71 Out of 200: 5RB Barristers Made Tens of Thousands of Pounds by Changing From Plural to Singular for Microsoft's Graveley and Garrett
2026-05-10 SLAPP Censorship - Part 72 Out of 200: Microsoft's Graveley and Garrett Signed Documents That Hold Them Accountable to Truth and Liable for Lies
2026-05-11 SLAPP Censorship - Part 73 Out of 200: Microsoft's Graveley and Garrett Remain Closely Connected in May 2026 ("Tag-Teaming" Against Bloggers in Another Continent)
2026-05-12 SLAPP Censorship - Part 74 Out of 200: The Basis of My Lawsuit Against Alex Graveley, Who Helps Garrett Stack the Docket in Another Continent
2026-05-12 SLAPP Censorship - Part 75 Out of 200: All True, All Verifiable, Unlike Garrett and Graveley Lying to at Least Three High Court Judges About What They Did
2026-05-14 SLAPP Censorship - Part 76 Out of 200: The Problem With the United Kingdom Allowing Americans to File Lawsuits by Proxy (Relayed by "Hired Guns")
2026-05-15 SLAPP Censorship - Part 77 Out of 200: They Never Knew How to Handle Women (Except to Attack Them)
2026-05-16 SLAPP Censorship - Part 78 Out of 200: Slandering Me for Saying the Truth About Graveley and Garrett's Abuse of Processes, Stacking Dockets

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he managed to secure a top-level EU position in June 2024
Over at Tux Machines...
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