Christine Lemmer-Webber4d ago

Kind and cherished FOSS and computing freedom advocate @sleepyowl (Joyce Ng) has gone missing and there is reason to fear she may have been apprehended by authorities, possibly likely even for being framed. Nobody has been able to reach her and many of us are worried for her safety.

Joyce does work on verifiable open source hardware. She also has been an activist pushing against the rise of far-right Christian nationalism globally but especially in Singapore. Because of this and her identity, she has people who would like to see bad things happen to her.

Probably for this reason, she may have been misidentified by Five Eyes as being a threat actor. Joyce wrote about this concern in November, posting a threatening screenshot where she was tipped off. https://bitowl.online/about

Please spread this wide. Hopefully this is a false alarm but Joyce is a kind-hearted person who fights for human rights and computing freedom; many of us are worried for her safety.

BitOwl Online

Show threadChristine Lemmer-Webber4d ago

If you have seen me posting about the dangers of ID laws, and about the need to have hardware options we can trust, a lot of the information on that stuff comes from talking to @sleepyowl

That's the kind of person she is: someone who wants to build solutions and use computing skills to advance human rights. You can see that stuff just by reading her fediverse feed. My experience is that Joyce in private is exactly like how she is in public. She isn't a threat actor, she's someone who wants to help people.

I hope she is safe.

Show threadViolet Madder

@cwebber @sleepyowl

Fuck.

Keep an eye on each other, everybody.

Mar 18 at 11:05pmWeb