Red Hat fails to take WeMakeFedora.org [LWN.net]

Red Hat fails to take WeMakeFedora.org

Posted Mar 16, 2022 14:54 UTC (Wed) by jond (subscriber, #37669)
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> He was banned from FOSDEM earlier this year.

That's interesting news, thanks. I recall people being uncomfortable attending earlier FOSDEMs where he was ostensibly presenting (he never showed up when it came down to it)

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Red Hat fails to take WeMakeFedora.org

Posted Mar 17, 2022 11:53 UTC (Thu) by misc (guest, #73730) [Link]

You can see the announce on https://lists.fosdem.org/pipermail/fosdem/2022q1/003422.html

Since the list is now private, I had to go to the internet archives, but the content was rather clear:
"Hi all,

Due to abuse of privileges and other complaints, we have banned Daniel Pocock from participating at FOSDEM.

Kind regards,

The FOSDEM team."

It happened right after people started to bring the issue on Twitter ( like this thread: https://mobile.twitter.com/ariadneconill/status/148973067... ). Once the Open Power room organiser noticed the thread, Daniel talk was removed ( https://mobile.twitter.com/toshywoshy/status/148988026313... ), and I guess this triggered his subsequent removal from the event. It should be pointed that Daniel wasn't in charge of the RTC room this year, so I guess he was maybe already banned, but the organizing team didn't communicate that widely, so Daniel found a loop hole and exploited it.

Given he is widely believed to be the one who sent this email ( https://archive.ph/cxD05 ) and the one after ( https://archive.ph/OZDC7 ), or the one doxxing one FSFE volunteer (since all mail follow the same pattern as what happened in Debian when Daniel was banned ), it was more than time to get him out

One point that should also not be overlooked is that it seems someone used GDPR requests to erase part of history. If you read the previous article ( https://lwn.net/Articles/814508/ ), you will notice that the link at the end about his blog removal from Planet Fedora is no longer valid, as the commit seems to have been removed from the git repo. The rebase was announced without details : https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/infrastruct...

But a whole mail thread related to the blog have also disappeared from the archives. For example, you can't find this mail anymore in the official archive: https://www.spinics.net/lists/fedora-devel/msg267590.html

Since privacy regulations would most likely be exercised by the data subject themselves, it is not hard to have a educated guess on who requested it and why.

So claims of being censored while he being the one who rewrite history to avoid any kind of accountability is one of the reason why people do not trust him for anything.