Sometimes 'Cancel Culture' Backfires Badly
Crossposted from TuxMachines.org
This week's good news (or best news) is, the 'cancel culture' got canceled. Moreover, efforts to 'cancel' us have failed. They've very clearly failed for reasons that shall be explained in the future.
One major upside of what Tux Machines (and Techrights also) was subjected to by Microsofters and their secret sponsors is, it helps the sites - not only Techrights but also this one - cover many facets of libel litigation 'landscape' in the UK and elsewhere, based on much-needed research. Not many people explore the topic, probably for fear of retribution.
So the chauvinists who strangle women wrongly assumed they can just bully us into silence, but that didn't work [1, 2]. It backfired. Take this month for example. In Techrights, each of the following was read about 10,000 times: article about the root issue behind the SLAPPs, this one about who's funding the SLAPPs, and an outline or timeline of issues, which relate to this short summary.
We'll carry on writing about these matters. There's no such thing as "too much" coverage. The profound zeal of the attacks on us merits a proportionate, reasonable response. █