cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/45061709
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Many privacy subreddits have mods who are hostile towards GrapheneOS. We were banned from posting on /r/Android for multiple years. The mod who banned us said our official project account on Reddit was ban evading because they once unjustifiably banned one of our team members.
On Wikipedia, a company attacking GrapheneOS project made years of edits to the site pushing false narratives about us. They cited articles based on their own press releases. Other content was made paraphrasing Wikipedia which ended up being cited by it. It continues to this day.
Articles about GrapheneOS on most platforms often have comments engaging in baseless personal attacks towards our team, linking to harassment content and making many clearly inaccurate claims about it. We’ve found chat rooms coordinating this including attacks on the X platform.
Privacy projects are more vulnerable to these attacks because the userbase and supporters largely avoid social media and other platforms where it happens. Many people believe what they read on social media if it isn’t countered and it builds echo chambers hostile to GrapheneOS.
Many people think these must be state sponsored attacks. However, our experience is these attacks are primarily orchestrated by companies selling dubious products marketed as private and secure. We did get targeted by state sponsored smear campaigns in France and Spain though.
Yeah in your head where “civil discourse” is supposed to matter more than security standards. This is an operating system aimed at people who have high security standards. Once we clear this up, we can start talking about Graphene’s fundamental hardware privacy limitations & how far the chain of trust really goes. Responding to people who call you wrong actually improves your standing with those who view things rationally. The loudest voices on the internet are those who have the most time to waste. Like me at work!
It has put put me off from using not for a long while, when he was fighting with calyx OS. The graphenOS community was toxic don’t know ifnit still is.
I don’t really get the “community toxicity” thing when ppl are talking about stuff that can land you in jail. If you think online arguments are stressful, imagine prison! Can’t log off from prison. Besides, arguments online are fun if you change your perspective on them.
When someone says “This is informative, and unfortunate.” and the response is “you’ll be banned if you don’t remove support for Techlore and there will be information published about your attacks on me in support of an abusive person, it is reality, you chose to attack the project this way, abusive people and their supporters aren’t welcome anymore, you’re complicit in the harassment and swatting attacks on me.” (basically confirming all the crap from the video the person reacted too), is your standing really “improving” among RATIONAL people?
Nope, it only increase the cult support.
I never seen a single person talking shit about GrapheneOS (although devs claim that all the time), what people can’t stand is that dev who is constantly attacking every other project around, and this is very well documented, and then playing the victim saying he is being persecuted, and constantly creating all this drama like a fucking child. GrapheneOS literally loses support because of it - right there two big channels that actively promoted and donated to GrapheneOS dropped it. And then there is you, a “rational” person fueling this fucking childish drama too? GrapheneOS is great when they are silent, the reason they are banned everywhere is because no RATIONAL person wants to deal with their crap. They aren’t against the project, but against this quarreling which the only constant is a single dev team, and why again are you bringing this drama here?
for other readers who want context, these are the “baseless” “defamatory” material they complain about: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dx7CZ-2Bajg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4To-F6W1NT0
You’re literally talking shit about them right now, and promoting a goddanged youtube channel like I’m going to actually switch my audio track away from music so that a guy can complain in my headphones, or something. I could not give a fuck about >86% of what you just typed if someone put a gun in my mouth. This is how people who wish they could be in court but would get smoked talk. Publishing information about people’s attacks on you is called a response, which is allowed IMO. I’ll permit it! People online aren’t your students hitting each other. Pretending it’s their problem because you made it your problem with them is mindboggling to me. Better listening material for you, while we’re posting You Tubes: Popol Vuh – In den Gärten Pharaos.
The optics of silence in the face of your critics is… what? In other words, I rebuke you demon
That’s exactly what those two videos are about, they are responses. If you could not give a fuck, then why again are you posting the drama here?
Watch responses*
That unlike Micay claims, are full of screenshots showing the real conversations and what that guy that accuses everyone of persecuting him actually does (there is even a hilarious screenshot of a dev acc on their matrix chat telling people to use voip to create Twitter accs to harass another project and if they don’t they would get banned from the chat… shit they accuse other projects of doing lol), all their claims of persecution by techlore was because they did one benchmark video where they recommended GrapheneOS over CalyxOS despite CalyxOS performing better for not being so hardened, but somehow they went mental and called the video slander campaign trying to destroy their project and shit… but it’s your choice to stay ignorant and bring the drama that guy causes for… I have no idea what for, probably just ignorance, because those familiar with his history know it’s all bullshit. Have a fun life.
Yeah have fun in Techlore’s Youtube comments. You should have more luck finding people who will sit through your heckin drama Youtube videos in their comments. You are a Keemstar iPad baby to me.