GrapheneOS20h ago
There are at least a dozen people spending at least several hours attacking GrapheneOS across platforms on a daily basis. It's a very strange situation. How do these people have so much time and dedication to keep making posts across platforms attacking us? It's relentless.
Show threadGrapheneOS20h ago

Every day, dozens of new accounts join our chat rooms to spread the same fabrications about GrapheneOS including via direct messages.

On Hacker News, one of the accounts making personal attacks based on fabrications in most threads about GrapheneOS has been doing it for 8 years.

Show threadGrapheneOS20h ago
Y Combinator has a financial stake in numerous surveillance and exploit development companies. Hacker News is a platform they own and the moderators on it have permitted years of vile harassment towards our team which they'd normally remove if others were targeted.
Show threadGrapheneOS20h ago
Hacker News mods micromanage it enough to repeatedly ask us not to reuse a bit of text across our comments. Meanwhile, they do nothing about disgusting personal attacks and harassment content consistently being spread in threads about GrapheneOS on their heavily moderated site.
Show threadGrapheneOS20h ago
The largest privacy community on Reddit /r/privacy bans any discussion or mentions of GrapheneOS. A bot automatically removes any post mentioning GrapheneOS they'll very actively ban people who evade their filters. The mods of the subreddit misrepresent this as something we want.
Show thread0bs1d1an20h ago
@GrapheneOS, have you reached out to /r/privacy to discuss this kind of censorship?
Show threadGrapheneOS
@0bs1d1an On Reddit, an account blocking you prevents you from replying not only directly to them but to any of the replies to them. Malicious people were using this to cycle through new accounts blocking hundreds of people to prevent replying. They were heavily maliciously attacking GrapheneOS and our team in /r/privacy and elsewhere. /r/privacy mods were not addressing it, so we kept privately complaining t o them. They were never willing to seriously deal with the abuse of their community.
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Show threadGrapheneOS20h ago
@0bs1d1an Instead, they rewarded the people attacking GrapheneOS by completely banning any discussion of it. It's not permitted to make any post about GrapheneOS or even any comment mentioning it. Even comments indirectly mentioning it to sidestep the rules will be removed if they find them and people get regularly banned for it. They'll check their comment histories and ban them for previously talking about GrapheneOS or participating in our subreddit if they even vaguely allude to GrapheneOS.
Show threadGrapheneOS20h ago
@0bs1d1an Multiple of the /r/privacy mods are hostile towards GrapheneOS themselves and have directly participated in making public attacks on the project with dishonest claims. Reddit should take away the moderation powers from each of the /r/privacy mods on every subreddit they moderate and give moderation control to people who aren't going to abuse it. The largest privacy subreddit banning discussion of GrapheneOS is ridiculous and Reddit should take away all power from these mods themselves.
Show thread0bs1d1an20h ago

@GrapheneOS, what strong objections do the mods of /r/privacy have towards GrapheneOS? Have they not reached out to you or explained themselves in any way?

At least /r/privacyguides covers GrapheneOS well...

Show threadGrapheneOS19h ago
@0bs1d1an Privacy Guides as a project supports GrapheneOS as a project but the leader of the project was part of one of the main groups attacking us. Privacy Guides has multiple team members who have directly participated in the attacks on our founder with fabricated stories and baseless personal attacks. They permit absolutely vile content towards our throughout their communities and regularly participate in it and encourage it. Their community is overall far less bad than the project members.
Show threadGrapheneOS19h ago
@0bs1d1an Jonah Aragon was part of Techlore and participated in his attacks on GrapheneOS which are what led to the swatting attacks by the Techlore community aimed at killing our founder. Jonah took these attacks on GrapheneOS with him to Privacy Guides which he leads. He has regularly used his position there to make personal attacks on our founder and attacks on GrapheneOS. He's one of the people orchestrating attacks on us with the numerous threads with inaccurate claims about our team.
Show threadIndigoat17h ago
@GrapheneOS @0bs1d1an i'm out of the loop, that seems wild, any legal action going on ?
Show threadGrapheneOS15h ago
@indigoat @0bs1d1an We intend to take legal action against several of the people who orchestrated most of the harassment towards our team but we need to do it in a serious way where we aren't handing them another way to attack GrapheneOS without being properly set up to win the case against them.
Show threadGrapheneOS19h ago
@0bs1d1an See https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/116297018021309116 for an explanation of what happened on /r/privacy. The solution to the problem would be Reddit taking away control of the subreddit from the abusive mods. There are many people who could do a better job and treat open source projects fairly instead of abusing their position to cause harm to them.
Show threadDavid Culley4h ago

@GrapheneOS I'm sorry for all the shit you have to deal with.

I'm a very happy user of GrapheneOS (I also donated).