Re: police report against the petition mob

[Jacob Bachmeyer]

Debian Community News Team wrote:
> [...]
>
> Looking at the headers of your message, we see that you sent it on 29
> March and the gnu.org (FSF) mailing list only delivered it on 2 April
> (headers copied below).
>
> This shows that somebody in FSF is now checking the messages one by one.
>   

No, it shows that the messages got stuck in a queue somewhere for 
several days.  The FSF/GNU infrastructure is fairly complex and the FSF 
sysadmins (mostly volunteers as I understand) are stretched thin.  
(Evidence:  the general utility login server is running a major release 
that went out of support a few months ago and has not yet been 
updated.)  The chances of messages getting stuck in a queue due to a 
temporary failure and going unnoticed until finally being delivered 
after an automated retry a few days later (as is common in mail systems 
-- email does *not* promise instant delivery) are fairly high.

If anything, I would expect censors to act quickly to hide their own 
existence, not to sit on a message for four days, *then* pass it through.

> [...]
> This censorship looks like pure evil.
>
> We do not consent to this type of censorship.  It is a type of fraud.
> They do this without our consent, so it is like rape.  They stole the F
> from FSF.
>   

As of yet, censorship is not proven.  All of these events could be the 
results of technical failures at a very inopportune time.  (Of course, 
according to Finangle's Law, failures *always* happen at the least 
opportune time.)

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-- Jacob