What a fascinating story (and even with a successful love story inside).
Thanks for sharing. :)
(And I certainly will avoid #Pixsy and #KainJones--what a fitting name, don't you think:
"A man who presides over a powerful corporation that devotes its considerable energy to tormenting people ...sends a legal threat to *a working artist* and he styles himself a champion of the arts? "
s/:#FratricideJones aka #KainJones, I'd say./s
Attached: 1 image Today's a big day for users of @[email protected] images: #Flickr has declared zero tolerance for #CopyleftTrolls, predators who exploit a bug in out-of-date versions of the CC licenses in order to threaten good-faith users of CC images who make minor errors in the way they credit the images. -- If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog: https://pluralistic.net/2023/04/01/pixsynnussija#pilkunnussija 1/
In the months since I published my article detailing Pixsy's attempt to shake me down, two things happened. First, I got a legal threat from #KainJones, Pixsy's CEO, who demanded that I get on the phone with him, the the alternative being "escalating things legally":
Jones also falsely claimed that naming the employees who'd threatened me violated the #GDPR, which is extremely on-brand for this whole mess.
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