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So they got scared and jumped the gun in an attempt to protect the Scala community?

Probably a more accurate statement would be: "So they got scared and jumped the gun and in so doing risked ruining someones life in an attempt to protect the Scala community."

Technically speaking is he recovering fully from this?

Does anyone ever recover fully from years of income loss? "Time in the market beats timing the market" and time is our most precious resource. It doesn't sound like this settlement (based on the attached court order) makes him whole financially in any way from the impact.

Yeah, good years and bad years kind of a thing. People recover from bankruptcies.

I meant in the way of recovering his social image because this is brutal.

Not to protect the scala community. To tank a rival. Miles Sabin (the accuser and organizer or the letter) runs a competing consulting service that directly competes (competed?) with Jon Petty, who ran another consulting service also in the UK.

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.

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/twitter-watch)

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.

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.

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.

And who defines what is hate speech?

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?

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.

we absolutely did this to protect the scala community and we weren't scared and didn't jump the gun. People had been talking about him as being problematic for years before the open letter

"I stand by spreading hearsay, even if a court happens to disagree"

"problematic"

bravo on the careful word choice, good luck on avoiding another libel suit

You did something very shameful.

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