THE sad thing is, lies can be repeated again and again if they're left unchallenged. Repeated challenges can put an end to them. Earlier this year we saw Free software being conflated with crimes and dangerous ideologies. We responded to it [1, 2] as we said similar FUD would likely come back, recurring to the point of becoming impossible to ignore.

"Earlier this year we saw Free software being conflated with crimes and dangerous ideologies."This morning Ryan published a lengthy and detailed response to something he had commented on yesterday. It concerns the Southern Poverty Law Center, which is an infiltrated and mostly defunct organisation, mostly a political drone that exploits the good old reputation of the Southern Poverty Law Center. It's not the same people; it's just the same name. It's like comparing Linux itself to the Linux Foundation, which isn't even using Linux.

I've decided to separate/isolate my own views (and response) from the original by Ryan and did this in the form of a video. ⬆