Responding to Abuse is Not Abuse
Editorial note: A high-level authority said that writing about this is lawful; it's OK to publish and there is "no law against it".
THIS article of mine is a continuation of last week's article. This article showed the attempts to censor an article I wrote in my site, Tux Machines. The article was about abuse I had received for a long time from a person whom I never ever spoke to, did not know, in a network where I never even spoke. This constituted hate crimes, too.
Putting aside all the abuse that I received, the abuser had the audacity to say the target or victim of the above crime was doing something wrong by merely writing about what had happened. In order to silence the victim, the abuser then resorted to false accusations of "copyright infringement" and "doxing"... as if taking a screenshot of a public page (made by the abuser) is "copyright infringement" and "doxing".
The abuser had the audacity to report me, the victim, to the Web host. Here is the text of the report with my reply below.
Tue, 03 Oct 2023 21:35:08 +0100
xxxxxxx@xxxxxx
Re: Copyright Infringement Notice
This was sent to my husband, but it is about an article I wrote myself.
Good day,Your client (Roy Schestowitz) has indicated in public that my claim for copyright infringement is "perjury" and that he will be reporting it to the police. At this point I have no reason to believe he will remove my intellectual property.
I took the screenshots myself. Those are pages accessible to everyone and created by the abuser. There is no law against creating screenshots, especially when those are relevant to an article I write as a victim of crimes.
I also have another grave matter to report: xxxxxxx
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These URL's were reported to the former host of Techrights & Tuxmachines and the service was terminated:
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The abuser thinks that whatever tactics were used before, namely poisoning the mind of one single person who volunteered to host my site for free, and was being lied to and threatened by the abuser, would magically work with a paid-for host that can actually assess the facts.
That's not how the law works.
Roy Schestowitz was told to stop, but they did not tell him to remove content.I am asking [host] to:
1) Remove my copyright material
2) Remove the doxxing
My husband was never told to remove any pages.
There is no doxxing [sic] because screenshots of public pages are simply not doxing. They are not copyright infringement either. I took those screenshots last year when I was subjected to constant abuse from the person in the screenshots and this person is still abusing me, even this month.
[host] should not aid in copyright infringement or harassment and doxxing. It would be both a civil and criminal liability.
Since there is no "copyright infringement or harassment and doxxing" [sic] (the harassment was all along directed at me, I merely wrote about this harassment) the host has nothing to answer for and, indeed, the host sided with us.
Later this year my husband will show that the abuser has a long history of "harassment by process", including falsification of addresses. █