Know Your Allies, Know Your Enemies
For no particular reason I'd like to take a moment to explain why we consider Daniel Pocock's involvement in politics (he did not win a seat, but he made valuable connections [1, 2]) important to the community. He's a voice for community interests, not GAFAM interests.
The first time I spoke to Pocock was well before all the phony 'scandals'. He used to blog habitually and appear in various planets (Fedora, Debian, Mozilla etc.), even when he wrote about political issues such as Brexit, which he opposed as he believed it was motivated by racism.
Pocock got in "trouble" (that's an understatement) not for doing something unethical or illegal. His "mistake" was that he spoke about unethical or illegal things, implicating some rather powerful and well-connected people. Put differently, or framed another way, Pocock preaches not CoC morality (where the Cs stand for "corporate") but human morality. That pisses off the sorts of people who open their butt cheeks to Microsoft.
At the moment Pocock has a series about security failings (and secrecy around those failings) inside Debian. There's lots more to come. The mainstream media will look the other way, partly because of the personal attacks. So don't pay attention to the media's attitude. Remember who sponsors this media with ads and VCs. So far this week (2 days) we've published 64 pages. We intend to at least strive to maintain this publication pace. The answer to censorship attempts is more speech, not less speech. When Microsofters try to silence you the worst thing to do is let them have their way. █
