If They Try to Censor You on Some Topic, Then You Should Cover This Topic Even More
Techrights now has two ONGOING series (running concurrently). They can go on and on for a very long time as the scandals are a "developing story" wherein exposing the scandal causes a self-feeding feedback loop (other parties begin to speak out). OSI is only a small part of it; it relates to what we published yesterday [1, 2] and Daniel Pocock wrote about hours ago. It not only relates to ongoing SLAPP against us [1, 2, 3] - waged by American Microsofters and a notorious firm that's trying to cover up strangulation of women. This also relates to Microsoft's GPL violation 'Jihad' - the campaign to make GPL compliance infeasible. This is very apparent, based on the phonebook-sized letters/parcels sent our way. They seem to be increasingly nervous about the things we show. They pretend that it's a matter of "privacy".
So expect us to cover not one but two topics every day; one is about thugs who glorify violence [1, 2] trying to censor Techrights and another is about corruption of the OSI. The two are connected, even closely intertwined in a number of ways.
These people don't seem to understand that the Streisand Effect is real. For instance, if you crack down on vloggers who demonstrate that voting machines are easy to crack/penetrate (it has always been that way), it'll only embolden critics of voting machines. In turn, negative publicity about voting machines will only spread further. Similarly, OSI and Microsoft trying to censor critics will backfire badly. Transparency will bring not only light but also widespread recognition, understanding. It'll give visibility not only to the abuse but also to futile efforts to gag reaction to the abuse. The latter increases interest in the former.
The censors clearly underestimated what they're dealing with. The law firm either poorly researched (if it at all) this matter or was so desperate for money that it did foolish things regardless. It seemed completely unaware of prior (failed) SLAPP attempts and even begging by their clients. █