Attention Folks
TRIGGER WARNING: Victims of violence or sexual assault may want to stop reading.
With all the discussion of sexism in FOSS this year, a certain individual calling himself MikeeUSA is back. I realize many people are not aware of this individual. He is notorious in certain circles for very good reasons. 2005 is the earliest record I know of him harassing women involved with Debian and LinuxChix. And last year, he sent death threats to many women involved in Debian development.
He's back, pasting the same comment to many blogs repeatedly. Not everyone has removed the disgusting comment, so I'm sure you can find it if you want. But, here's a summary of his beliefs:
- Hans Reiser was justified in murdering his ex-wife since she divorced him; the only down-side is that he can't code while in prison
- Men have the right to rape women, and rape laws are stealing that right
- Pretty much all laws that require treating women as well as you treat your dog require stealing men's rights
- etc.
I hope you can see where this is going. Obviously nowhere good.
My advice? Do not engage; he is not receptive. Delete with impunity. Note also that he uses Tor, so an IP address block on your blog comments won't work; email address block should work for a while. Also, warn the others, and tell women you know involved in Free Software that if this guy comes after them in any way, they NEED to speak up.
Yes, I know, this blog has been very offtopic for a while now. I'm sorry. The software I'm most impressed by at the moment isn't packaged in Ubuntu though! I know, I need to go file a FFe to get it synced from Debian so I can write about it.
