The Firing Line Against Techrights
Nobody can deny that silencing us is incredibly difficult. In 4 months from now Wikileaks turns 20. We learned a lot from Wikileaks - its decentralised nature, anonymity, source protection, and vetting. I used to speak to Julian Assange.
Tomorrow we'll tell a story about campaigns to intimidate us with death threats; it's not even the worst thing. I spoke to a cop and to an investigator about it today. They're still on the case.
In the The Silence of the Lambs (film or novel) there is a character that very much reminds me of the hired gun we deal with. It's not Mishcon anymore but its siblings; the EPO took Mishcon as their hired gun a decade back and Mishcon accomplished nothing at all. We can only guess how much the EPO wasted on lawyers who managed to censor not even one word we had published. We didn't spend a single penny on lawyers; all the help we received was pro bono. Not every single lawyer is evil and/or greedy. Seriously.
In a way, seeing the law firms trying to form a firing line around us can be somewhat of a badge of honour; they know we have a lot of impact, otherwise they would not bother. At the end it backfires on them, both financially and reputation-wise. In the coming days we'll see how much the hired guns shrank (they lose a lot of staff) and how much deeper in debt they are. There is a legal requirement in the UK for them to publish this data. █
Image source: The Night I Survived a Silence of the Lambs-Themed Feast