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Projection Tactics - Part III: Silencing Inconvenient Voices Online

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jan 14, 2026,
updated Jan 14, 2026

People fail to get along because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don’t know each other; they don’t know each other because they have not communicated with each other. - Martin Luther King Jr.

Last week my wife and I both received threats, both of us rather certain the threats were motivated by what the spouse of the client of the hired guns had said. This is what really "triggered" him, he's just trying to censor or 'bury' his spouse.

Meanwhile a lot has happened here in the UK, where neither he nor his spouse live. For instance, "X could face ban in UK over deepfakes, minister says" and MElon "says outcry over X's Grok service is 'excuse for censorship'" (he conflates curtailing CSAM with "censorship"). If X gets banned in the UK, it'll be hard to see what the spouse says in public. In Part I and in Part 2 we dealt with abuse and harm. We oppose abuse and harm, but we must all recognise many parties suffered abuse and harm. Nobody is a monarch here, and certainly not in the US. Someone in the US seems to have suffered the most harm in the context of trauma. We can all agree that the UK isn't part of US and we must deal with American issues in the context of American affairs*.

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* This dispute between an American married couple is still ongoing and spilled online for all to see. This was less than a day ago:

he sent me $37k claiming that’s all i own and some dog food? and a random subset of my furniture? fuck this fucking abuser, kidnapper, and rapist

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