The Futility of Debian's Censorious and Litigious Campaign: Debian.Community Lives on, Debian.day and DebianCommunity.org Replace It
New year, new domains
LAST YEAR Debian decided to "deal" with critics by taking over their platforms. Red Hat had tried the same - and failed miserably - that very same year.
The foolish (if not outright laughable) idea of playing whack-a-mole in the DNS system was put to the test. It is notoriously misguided because it is expensive and not effective, as very affluent movie studios discovered or regrettably found out. It's just not the right way to do things.
We can now repost whatever Daniel Pocock has to say. No more speech policing by Ariadne, our prior sysadmin. Pocock did not do anything illegal, it's just that what he knows scares some people in high places. Ariadne was being sent threatening letters from some of them.
Pocock's articles seem to strike a nerve. They just do. Debian is still censoring Debian people who say the same things he does. Debian even censors women."DO NOT SPEAK, WOMAN! Let the men talk..."
So it's not Pocock per se who bothers them. In fact, his latest posts are rather innocuous and polite.
"I found out that Molly [Bully de Blanc) promoted a federal felony," he told me earlier this year. "It will appear shortly on my blog."
We intend to keep abreast of his writings and we encourage others to do the same.
In his own words:
I've started putting up some new sites. They each have their own feed and also English-only feeds.debian.news polls them using the English-only feeds
debian.day finally has RSS:
https://debian.day/en/feed.xml
and this:
Good to see that DNS hunters aren't getting their way. Trademark lawyers cost them a lot and they're trying in vain to silence dissidents. Law-abiding whistleblowers.
The same "bullshit artists" who did this to him also attempted this on us. We'll cover this next year and we shall show all the details available.
The people who do this abhor free speech; maybe they should consider moving to Saudi Arabia. █