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I don't think it was out of competition. To borrow some language from the aforementioned open letter: This is very much a "pattern of behaviour" with these peop

by tsss 2y ago

I don't think it was out of competition. To borrow some language from the aforementioned open letter: This is very much a "pattern of behaviour" with these people, directed against anyone and everyone that makes a compelling political target. Travis Brown must be the worst of them, who isn't even really a part of the "Scala community" anymore since he dedicates 100% of his time not on Scala development but on coordinating lynch mobs against his personal enemies within the Scala community. Coincidentally, he is also the new boyfriend of Yifan Xing (the accuser) and a sworn enemy of Jon Pretty.

cbeach 2y ago
Yifan is Brown's new girlfriend? Pieces of the puzzle are now falling neatly into place. There were two blogposts written about Jon Pretty, insinuating bad behaviour on his part towards woman. One by Yifan. One by Victoria Leontieva (AKA killnicole). Victoria was Travis's girlfriend too. So, both Victoria and Yifan dated Travis. That's way too coincidental to be coincidence, especially when Travis was known for systematically cancelling people based on his perception of their political opinions (e.g. https://github.com/travisbrown/cancel-culture https://github.com/travisbrown/cancel-culture, https://github.com/travisbrown/twitter-watch https://github.com/travisbrown/twitter-watch)
outof 2y ago
Travis Brown is famous for outing "libsoftiktok" (much to Tucker Carlson's on tv ire) and other far right and anti-trans hate speech influencers. I can see how a certain type of person would hate him, but i think he's a hero.
- cbeach 2y ago
  Travis Brown worked for Twitter and almost certainly had access to personally-identifying information on @libsoftiktok that he used to dox her. You might think he's a hero, but I'm not sure you'd like it if the situation were reversed, and rightwing tech workers abused their position to expose your online identities because they disagreed with your political opinions.
  - outof 2y ago
    it was way after he left and he showed how it was done. i dont remember the details but there was a clear public trail of breadcrumbs. zero inside knowledge needed. you should do your research before making such wild claims. i would never post inflammatory hate speech anonymously so the reversal isn't possible.
    - tsss 2y ago
      And who defines what is hate speech?
    - VirusNewbie 2y ago
      From my understanding, LibsOfTikTok just reposted 'fringe liberal' content without comment, no? So I'm not sure how that's hate speech. Did they later resort to calling names or something?
      - cbeach 2y ago
        Yes, you’re right. At that point the videos were simply reposted without comment (which achieved her political aims all the more powerfully). She does provide commentary now her account has been restored to Twitter but I wouldn’t describe the commentary as hateful or inciteful. I think the people she shines a light on are the ones we need to worry about as a society.

by tsss 2y ago

cbeach 2y ago

Yifan is Brown's new girlfriend? Pieces of the puzzle are now falling neatly into place. There were two blogposts written about Jon Pretty, insinuating bad behaviour on his part towards woman. One by Yifan. One by Victoria Leontieva (AKA killnicole). Victoria was Travis's girlfriend too. So, both Victoria and Yifan dated Travis. That's way too coincidental to be coincidence, especially when Travis was known for systematically cancelling people based on his perception of their political opinions (e.g. https://github.com/travisbrown/cancel-culture https://github.com/travisbrown/cancel-culture, https://github.com/travisbrown/twitter-watch https://github.com/travisbrown/twitter-watch)

outof 2y ago

Travis Brown is famous for outing "libsoftiktok" (much to Tucker Carlson's on tv ire) and other far right and anti-trans hate speech influencers. I can see how a certain type of person would hate him, but i think he's a hero.

cbeach 2y ago
Travis Brown worked for Twitter and almost certainly had access to personally-identifying information on @libsoftiktok that he used to dox her. You might think he's a hero, but I'm not sure you'd like it if the situation were reversed, and rightwing tech workers abused their position to expose your online identities because they disagreed with your political opinions.
- outof 2y ago
  it was way after he left and he showed how it was done. i dont remember the details but there was a clear public trail of breadcrumbs. zero inside knowledge needed. you should do your research before making such wild claims. i would never post inflammatory hate speech anonymously so the reversal isn't possible.
  - tsss 2y ago
    And who defines what is hate speech?
  - VirusNewbie 2y ago
    From my understanding, LibsOfTikTok just reposted 'fringe liberal' content without comment, no? So I'm not sure how that's hate speech. Did they later resort to calling names or something?
    - cbeach 2y ago
      Yes, you’re right. At that point the videos were simply reposted without comment (which achieved her political aims all the more powerfully). She does provide commentary now her account has been restored to Twitter but I wouldn’t describe the commentary as hateful or inciteful. I think the people she shines a light on are the ones we need to worry about as a society.