Series parts:

• Sceptical of Cancel Artists in Corporate Press
• Upcoming New Series: The Corporate 'Cancel Culture' Industry
• The Corporate 'Cancel Culture' Industry -- Part I: Somebody Wants to be Your 'Buddy'
• The Corporate 'Cancel Culture' Industry — Part II: People Who Defamed Linus Torvalds Say Torvalds Was “Grateful” for It
• The Corporate 'Cancel Culture' Industry — Part III: Non-Technical People Trying to Ruin the Lives of the Geeks
• The Corporate 'Cancel Culture' Industry — Part IV: Hit Pieces and Public Shaming as Bargaining Cards
• The Corporate 'Cancel Culture' Industry — Part V: Hit Piece Gone Wrong?
• The Corporate 'Cancel Culture' Industry — Part VI: Examples of GNU and Linux Luminaries Targeted by Mobs
• The Corporate ‘Cancel Culture’ Industry — Part VII: Abusing Online Communities and Networks, Then Using One's Own Abuse to Justify a Code of Censorship (CoC)
• YOU ARE HERE ☞ In Conclusion

Summary: After 2 introductory parts and 7 core parts we're finally concluding the series with a handful of points

OVER the past few years we saw a number of lynch mobs against GNU and Linux luminaries (we've named about half a dozen). These weren't unprecedented but they grew in terms of their intensity, amplified by campaigns of misinformation and mass deception (even defamation) in social control media.

There are lessons to be learned from all this:

1. Do not trust anything you see in social control media; it's designed and refined to propagate and even reward propaganda, never mind accuracy. Groupthink is the name of the game. The group is sometimes led by employees of malicious corporations.
2. The media right now (in 2023) is nothing like the media of 2003. There's no integrity and the business model seems to be "outcomes" for clients/advertisers, such as IBM or Microsoft.
3. Do not reply to or cooperate with strangers. The shrewdest trolls pretend to be your friend to get closer and leave you with a long knife in the back.
4. Free software (Commons) isn't something rich people want to coexist with. They might pretend they adore "Open Source", but as the recent Red Bait debacle shows, they want monopolies, they want control. Canonical is gravitating towards Microsoft. It's all about money.
5. Advocacy for software freedom will always face antagonism/resistance, just like freedom in general. Thomas Jefferson famously said that "[t]he price of freedom is eternal vigilance."

This is the tenth and final part. We hope people found it informative. ⬆