About a month ago, the FSF announced—with what I guess amounts to fanfare—the launch of the "FSF Community Response Team", chartered with
- Responding to questions and points about free software in online media.
- Working with the FSF campaigns team to respond to big news stories that impact software freedom, or stories that are chances for people to understand why free software matters.
- Making sure that important stories, about topics like fully free GNU/Linux distributions, DRM, or the dangers of "cloud computing," get as much attention as possible in the media and the widest possible reach through social networking sites.
On the subject of "personal attacks", readers may remember the antics of Jason Christopher Hughes, aka "Sandy Laphon", aka "sandala lafoan", aka "Umberto", who's still copy'n'pasting the same wacky stuff everywhere he can manage, and generally getting shut down for it. Evidently the irony of his flurry of spittle-flecked comments on Bruce Byfield's piece on "just getting along" escapes him.
In any case, the reaction of the vast majority of people to this seems to be the same as that expressed by "Victory Grey": "i've investigated the blogger links you posted and can only come to the conclusion that it is you harassing Lefty, not the other way around." "Dysamoria" similarly comments, "this is just ridiculous."
I'm surprised Jason hasn't gotten onto the FSF Community Response Team list yet. I suppose it's only a matter of time. I guess things could use some livening up over there. He can tell them all about how I'm "stalking" him...
In related matters, we've received a flurry of unsolicited email from Brandon Lozza, hinting darkly at "confirming" facts and "meetings" being held, along with oblique, and unsupported, claims of defamation. It was pointed out that there's a difference between public defamation and public ridicule, and that what this site was doing was the latter, and that what he had been doing when he posted to identi.ca that he had "evidence" that I was a drug abuser but didn't "yet" have evidence that I was a pedophile constituted the former.
We'll be providing excerpts from Mr. Lozza's exciting missives, without his permission—I'm curious to see just how many bogus DMCA takedown notices from Brandon my hosting provider needs to start ignoring him entirely—in coming days.
