jontyDr Matthew Garrett v Dr Roy Schestowitz and Anor
What was the harassment TR/TM was receiving and what was the libel they directed at MG? (juicier gossip please)
Dr Garrett is chiefly accused of an online campaign of material which is (variously) criminal, illegal or offensive. The criminal matters alleged include cybercrime, hate crime, blackmail, issuing threats of violence or death, and matters adjacent to terrorism. Other illegal matters alleged include defamation, harassment and online abuse. Offensive matters alleged include material that is variously racist, antisemitic, misogynist, homophobic or otherwise hateful or discriminatory, sexually incontinent, or drugs-related. Dr Garrett is alleged to have waged this campaign through the medium of IRC ‘sockpuppet’ accounts – accounts under pseudonymous user nicknames intended to be a vehicle for distributing material anonymously and deniably.
You can see the harassment they were recieving here. There was some pretty vile stuff directed at Rianne in particular.
https://news.tuxmachines.org/n/2023/08/11/Garrett_Committing...
This is a wild read. Reminds me of blogs written by the Temple OS guy. I wonder how they decided that this is coming from MG - there must be a backstory.
looking at the rest of the site - not so sure. They seem to be having the same type of attacks directed towards many people.
http://techrights.org/o/2021/04/21/libel-campaigns/
Weirdly enough, mjg59_ was part of those?
https://techrights.org/irc-archives/irc-log-techrights-19092...
Another internet rabbit hole.
Yeah I was going to write "I feel kind of bad for these people because it feels like there may be some untreated mental illness involved" but then I thought if I wrote that it was going to wind up on its own page clipped as "I feel kind of bad for these people" followed by a blurb saying "See? We told you Matthew Garrett eats cats."