Exposing Crime is Not a Crime (It Never Was)
In the eyes of rich and powerful people, those who speak about their crimes are the "criminals"
Over the years, a topic I often covered in my personal site (having encountered many supporting examples, sometimes firsthand) is that states and companies fancy misusing their power and wealth - or their connections to power and wealth - to paint their critics as the real problem and cover things up. This is particularly problematic with states as they control the courts and sometimes the press (not that companies cannot do the same, but it's more limited in terms of scope and magnitude).
When I covered EPO crimes I got SLAPPs. At the end I won. They left me alone. This had also been done in the Boycott Novell days and didn't end up until 2019.
Even Sirius sent me threats for talking about misconduct and crimes committed against my colleagues. Well, at the end Sirius was taken to court. This always backfires, as it did on Microsofters as well [1, 2]. █
Related:
- Microsoft GitHub Exposé — Part XXVII — The Future of OpenAI May Depend on the Fate of GitHub's Copilot in Court ($9 Billion in Damages)
- Microsoft GitHub Exposé — Part IV — Mr. MobileCoin: From Mono to Plagiarism... and to Unprecedented GPL Violations at GitHub (Microsoft)
- Microsoft GitHub Exposé — Part VIII — Mr. Graveley's Long Career Serving Microsoft's Agenda (Before Hiring by Microsoft to Work on GitHub's GPL Violations Machine)
NB: The arrest recorded on the right happened a few days after my first SLAPP from Microsofters. Now they're collaborating [1, 2].