Oops, forgot to mention my Twitter handle is "zlatinb".
Good luck!
On Fri, Jan 27, 2023 at 10:54 AM Zlatin Balevsky <zlat...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> My name is Zlatin Balevsky. I was involved in the development of Freenet
> sometime around 2001-2003. I've kept a relatively close eye on what's been
> going on since then.
>
> I want to say that I consider Ian Clarke / Sanity a great man, and even
> though I've never met him in person, I consider him a close friend. He
> gave me a very good professional recommendation when I was applying for my
> job at Lime Wire LLC (you may remember there was a file-sharing P2P program
> called Limewire).
>
> Therefore, I fully support Ian's decision to look for an "offensively
> racist" domain name. Ian, do not give up! It is of paramount importance
> that you offend as many people as possible! You DA MAN!
>
> Thank you for your attention.
> Zlatin Balevsky
>
> P.S. Since I like to practice what I preach, I have a tweet on my Twitter
> timeline where I expose some seriously evil things about the Invisible
> Internet Project ("I2P" for short). As you may already guess, I do my best
> to offend as many people as possible in the pastebin linked from that
> tweet. I'm not going to post a direct link to the tweet just so I don't
> trip some mailing list safeguard.
>
> On Sun, Jan 22, 2023 at 5:38 PM craig mcgee <
> craig.mc...@guilt-management.org.uk> wrote:
>
>> I have to admit I was confused by the statement Ian made. Joke or not, it
>> wasn't funny.
>> but this is as far as I will go on the matter as I don't wish to get
>> involved in the freenet dispute.
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> *From:* Russell Glenn <rusgl...@swismail.com>
>> *To:* devl@freenetproject.org
>> *Sent:* Sunday, January 22, 2023 3:33 PM
>> *Subject:* Racist statement of Ian Clarke on this list
>>
>> Mr. Ian Clarke,
>>
>> when discussing your acquisition of a secondary domain,
>> "freenet.org", for your highly controversial unilateral decision
>> to rewrite the Freenet Project which has always been hosted
>> on "freenetproject.org", you said the following:
>>
>> > Yeah, all of the provocatively racist domain names were taken anyway.
>>
>> Notice that this is a VERBATIM quote, and the email of yours did
>> not contain ANY other content, nothing to reduce the gravity of
>> this statement; the gravity of which cannot be reduced anyway.
>> Proof: https://www.mail-archive.com/devl@freenetproject.org/msg55336.html
>>
>> As a black person, but not only as such, I inform you that racism
>> is NOT tolerable by any means whatsoever on this planet and will
>> NEVER be.
>>
>> And before you attempt to dismiss this as a joke:
>> Millions of people died due to racism.
>> You, especially as a white person, are not entitled to joke about that.
>> Nobody is.
>>
>> And this piles onto the provable falsehoods and other insults you have
>> produced on this list in the previous days.
>>
>> Therefore, it is my duty to join the ranks of people who request
>> you to:
>> * immediately step down as leader of the Freenet Project and
>> * leave its board and
>> * transfer ownership of the domains to the Freenet developer team and
>> * transfer ownership of all other related accounts and
>> * cease to use the name "Freenet" for any of your new projects.
>>
>> Racists, or those who joke about racism, do not belong into positions
>> where power is wielded.
>>
>> As you have failed to prove that the board of the project is still
>> constructed of active members of the community,
>> and not of those who have been inactive for decades as Mr. Daigniere
>> stated,
>> I join those who request leadership is transferred to the
>> leading developer.
>> To my knowledge, this is Mr. Babenhauserheide.
>>
>> Should he not accept the position, I would vouch for the previous lead
>> developer Mr. Dougherty, or anyone of the choice of the two.
>>
>> Finally, I urgently implore anyone who reads this email to state
>> their support. We must stand united against racism.
>>
>> - Russell Glenn
>>
>>
