Jacob Appelbaum

Solidarity

Tor - Statement

Over the past several days, a number of people have made serious, public allegations of sexual mistreatment by former Tor Project employee Jacob Appelbaum.

 

These types of allegations were not entirely new to everybody at Tor; they were consistent with rumors some of us had been hearing for some time. That said, the most recent allegations are much more serious and concrete than anything we had heard previously.

 

We are deeply troubled by these accounts.

 

We do not know exactly what happened here. We don't have all the facts, and we are undertaking several actions to determine them as best as possible. We're also not an investigatory body, and we are uncomfortable making judgments about people's private behaviors.

 

That said, after we talked with some of the complainants, and after extensive internal deliberation and discussion, Jacob stepped down from his position as an employee of The Tor Project.

 

We have been working with a legal firm that specializes in employment issues including sexual misconduct. They are advising us on how to handle this, and we intend to follow their advice. This will include investigations of specific allegations where that is possible. We don’t know yet where those investigations will lead or if other people involved with Tor are implicated. We will act as quickly as possible to accurately determine the facts as best we can. Out of respect for the individuals involved, we do not expect results to be made public.

People who have information to contribute are invited to contact me. I will take input seriously, and I will respect its sensitivity.

 

People who believe they may have been victims of criminal behavior are advised to contact law enforcement. We recognize that many people in the information security and Internet freedom communities don't necessarily trust law enforcement. We encourage those people to seek advice from people they trust, and to do what they believe is best for them.

 

Going forward, we want the Tor community to be a place where all participants can feel safe and supported in their work. We are committed to doing better in the future. To that end, we will be working earnestly going forward to develop policies designed to set up best practices and to strengthen the health of the Tor community.

 

In our handling of this situation, we aim to balance between our desire to be transparent and accountable, and also to respect individual privacy.

We expect that this will be our only public statement.

Shari Steele
Executive Director
The Tor Project

Contact information:
ssteele at torproject dot org
pgp key:
69B4 D9BE 2765 A81E 5736 8CD9 0904 1C77 C434 1056

 

https://blog.torproject.org/blog/statement

04.06.2016

 


 

jacobapplebaum.net

 

Hey there! We're a collective of people who have been harassed, plagiarized, humiliated, and abused — sexually, emotionally, and physically — by

Jacob Appelbaum. Jake enjoys manipulating people through his built-up social capital, influence, and power, in order to get what he wants.

Here are some of our stories.

 

http://jacobappelbaum.net/

 


 

He said, they said

 

Content note for discussion of sexual violence.


Leigh Honeywell @hypatiadotca
The problem with "open secrets" is that they are never open enough to keep people safe :(
11:30 PM - 3 Jun 2016

 

A number of people are now coming forward with details of the long record of sexual misconduct committed by Jacob Appelbaum. The stories I have read are entirely consistent with my own experiences being sexually involved with Jacob in 2006-2007.

 

I am writing this under my real name because I am fortunate enough to be able to afford to. I am lucky to have a stable economic and immigration situation, and I am not close enough to Jacob’s world to be in any way dependent on his opinion of me, or on the opinions of people who might support him. I know that’s not true for everybody, and I recognize that many of the people speaking up about Jacob’s abuse are marginalized – by state surveillance, by gender, by sexuality, by geography, by poverty, and by other factors. I stand with their decision to publish their accounts of his actions in a way that allowed them to feel safer speaking out. I am also glad that Nick Farr has also felt able to come forward with his own experience under his own name.

 

Jacob and I were involved on and off over the course of 2006 and 2007, mainly spending time together at security conferences. During that time, I was also seeing other people, with the consent and awareness of all involved. In that time we spent together, he violated boundaries I set as though they were a game, particularly at times when I was intoxicated. There were a number of times I felt afraid and violated during interactions with Jacob. Being involved with him was a steady stream of humiliations small and large as he mistreated me in front of others and over-shared about our intimate interactions with friends who were often also professional colleagues.

 

For example, on several occasions in professional situations, he told other people that I was good at a particular sex act. On another occasion where my primary romantic partner at the time, Paul Wouters, was also present, Jacob ignored my use of a safeword when his sexual behavior turned into violent behavior that violated my limits. Paul and I both had to repeatedly tell Jacob to stop, and the experience was profoundly upsetting. I believe that one of the common elements of Jacob’s abusive behavior is humiliating one or another member of a couple in front of the other – as other accounts of his actions are published, that is something worth watching out for. (NB: I am including Paul’s name here with his consent – because that matters.)

 

Jacob was a charismatic and central figure in the security community I spent the early part of my career in. Many of our friends and colleagues saw the way he treated me and did nothing about it, so it took me years before I realized how abusive he was to me. Until that realization, I remained “friends” with him. It was witnessing his uncritical support of Assange and smearing of Assange’s accusers – something I disagree with intensely – that made me understand the true measure of his character. It was seeing him deny other women’s experiences of sexual violence that made me fully realize how bad my own experiences with him had been.

 

If you are horrified by this and want to take action, here’s what I suggest.

  1. Believe victims.
  2. Educate yourself on your role in enabling sexual violence: victim-blaming, the phenomenon of “missing stairs“, the effects of misogyny in activist communities, and why “go to the police” is so often bad advice for victims. Learn more about what you can do to fight it.
  3. Donate to nonprofits which fight sexual violence, such as SF Women Against Rape or Sexual Health Innovations, whose Project Callisto is trying to automate the process of collecting reports of sexual assault and connecting victims with each other, much in the same way Jacob’s alleged victims connected with each other. (Disclosure: I’m a volunteer on their advisory board because I care so much about what they do.)

One final note of warning: I’ve noticed at least one person who also has a history of sexual assault spreading word about the accusations about Jacob in a supportive way. I just want to say that, like Jacob himself, simply talking the talk about consent and sex positivity and “yes means yes” does not make someone a safe person to be around. Watch for people using this technique to groom future victims and don’t let someone’s words speak louder than their actions, big and small.

 

Comments are open but will be heavily moderated. I would prefer that people not contact me to disclose their own stories of mistreatment, as I am not (currently) a trained counselor and am already struggling with the emotional toll of publishing this. But know this: I believe you. If you need emotional support, please reach out to people close to you, a counselor in your area, or to the trained folks at RAINN or Crisis Text Line.


https://hypatia.ca/2016/06/07/he-said-they-said/

07.06.2016

 


 

The Forest for the Trees

 

It feels rather sardonic to say this now, openly, after two years spent alternating between trying to inhibit my rage and convince myself that I hadn’t been hurt, followed by seeking out other victims, in order to develop the collective capacity to defend ourselves and to have the simple ability to speak out in a manner which would be heard and not discarded.

I’m Forest. Here’s my story, as submitted to the anonymous site jacobappelbaum.net:

 

Jake and I had been friends and coworkers for years. Looking back on it, I’m not sure why. From the very first Tor developer meeting I had attended, he repetitively propositioned my partner and I for sex. He even went so far as to, on the very first meeting on the first morning, in front of all the other developers — whom I had not yet met — tell me that he was okay with my partner and I fucking in the same bed as him while he watched, causing both of my partner and I to feel completely humiliated that our private sex life was being discussed in front of colleagues we had hoped to build a good start towards friendly, professional relationships.

While travelling, the first time he came to the city I lived in, I invited him to stay at my house. As politely as I could, I explained, “You can have the floor, and I’ll take my bed, or the other way around. If you’re comfortable with it, we can share my bed, as friends. Meaning no physical contact.” We both slept in my bed.

That turned out (mostly) fine. (Except, of course, being propositioned again, this time for a threesome with Jake and one of my roommates.) In fact, Jake and I proceeded to share beds in a friendly manner over the years, and nothing bad ever happened.

Once Jake had moved to Germany, I came to visit friends there for a while, and one night I stayed at Jake’s place. Again, we shared a bed, as friends. There weren’t even any discussion or attempts beforehand to convince me to do anything sexual with him. It was freezing cold, and I went to bed with several layers of street clothes on.

Sometime around 5 o’clock in the morning, I woke up very confused and startled because my pants were unzipped and Jake’s arm was wrapped around me, his hands in my underwear and he was rubbing my clit and rimming the edges of my vagina. I tried to shove him off me and wake him up. He’s physically much bigger than me, so the shoving didn’t work as well as it should have, but nonetheless he rolled over, a bit exageratedly, mumbling as if asleep.

In the morning, I confronted him about it. I was really confused. I didn’t know if he was actually asleep, but if he was, how did my clothes come undone? Assuming that if I was super confrontational about it, he’d have some excuse like “Oh, but I thought it was okay that time because you didn’t explicitly give me the we’re-just-friends lecture before bed…” When confronting Jake about this, I said, “Dude, what the fuck. You started fingering me last night.” It took a few seconds for there to be a reaction on his face, and then he seemed confused, saying “Oh… what? I don’t remember that.” I glared at him.

The really disconcerting thing for me was that, half an hour later, he said, “I thought you were her.” Here, “her” was Jake’s fiancée. At the time, she didn’t live in Germany, and they hadn’t seen each other in weeks. Jake’s fiancée was also gorgeous and super curvy, and I am basically a scrawny, little twig. “I’m not sure how you could confuse us, even asleep.” I said. He continued muttering some excuses about having wet dreams about her. He seemed to suddenly and extremely vividly remember whatever dream. Nowhere did he say, “I didn’t put my hands in your panties,” nor did he apologise.


Transformative Justice is not the “Death of Due Process”

 

First, some backstory is in order.

 

Seven or eight years ago, I was involved in an anarchist collective process for a male person in an anarchist activist community who was accused of and eventually admitted to raping two anarchist women. Since none of us would turn him in to the police, we gave him a choice of either leaving or going through a rehabilitation programme which we would create, in an attempt to transform him into someone just as capable of contributing in all the productive ways he already was but without harming other people and decreasing their abilities to contribute and to do so safely. We warned him that, if he skipped town, I would personally hunt him down to whatever city he ran to, contact the anarchist organisers there, and attempt to give them (as non-biased as possible) an account of the events. He didn’t run.

 

At first, he participated grudgingly, but later he broke down crying in front of the two victims, apologising sincerely and begging them for forgiveness. As part of the rehabilitation, one of the things we determined to be cause for his behaviour was a very negative self-body image, i.e. he was quite overweight and under the impression that women “only like dudes who are ripped”. Part of my responsibilities in the rehab process was to go to the gym with him, to help him have better body image, demonstrate that not all women are into “dudes who are ripped”, and help him become more comfortable with the idea that women are intelligent creatures as opposed to being merely some sexual object to be won over. He eventually successfully convinced both us and the victims that he would not abuse anyone else. To date this has been successful, and he’s had healthy relationships with several partners, including a transperson.

 

The Plan

 

When I first started seeking out other victims, about six months ago, I did not want to formally report any of the stories I had heard from Jake’s victims to the Tor Project or others, for two primary reasons. First, that my main motivation in this was to ensure that these behaviours stopped, and it was not clear to me that any traditional punitive “justice” measures would achieve such. Second, I feared retaliation from Jake, as well as retaliation towards any of the victims whose stories I would divulge. Multiple victims at the time expressed that they didn’t want me to tell The Tor Project, later admitting they feared retaliation to be extremely likely, as well as difficult to combat.

 

Instead, I had planned to gather people for a secret meeting in Valencia, somewhere calm, neutral, and away from events, like on the beach, invite Jake, and have everyone willing who has ever been sexually assaulted, humiliated, harassed, or felt their boundaries disrespected, by him to take turns telling a few sentences about what he did to them and how it made them feel. Then we would tell Jake that, as his friends, we thought this needed to stop, and that we’d either deliver a list of the stories to The Tor Project and other organisations, or make all the stories public, if he refused to hold himself accountable for his actions or his behaviour did not appear to improve. In planning this secret meeting, I tried to determine what would cause Jake to perpetually disrespect other people like this, and if there were any positive things we could do to help him.

 

Somehow Jake got word of all this, and proceeded to go back and forth between everyone I knew, starting, it seems, with one of my roommates and a reporter acquaintance, to force information out of these people, including more names of more people involved (to force more information out of). He seemed to have put the whole story together from all the bits and pieces he was given. In between my efforts to get work done and give a lecture, he imposed on me that my ten minutes of coffee break time should be spent speaking with him, because it was An Emergency. During that rather one-sided conversation, Jake described all the time, effort, and ways he was using in order to completely ruin someone’s life who had attempted to stand up to him, as well as previous ways he had managed to get someone fired from their position and ostracised. He pointedly mentioned, several times, the names of multiple people who he had destroyed in the past for standing against him. In his current efforts to harass one of these people — which through backchannels I was already aware of, he said, “I’ve literally been spending 15 hours a day on this. […] I’ve been speaking with an investigative journalist team to make sure they don’t believe [that person]. […] I heard there was a plan to ‘Confront’ me in Valencia. If that happens, I probably will not take it very well…”


This was chilling. Why was Jake saying those things, non sequitur and without provocation? It was clear to me that they were thinly-veiled threats, descriptions of what would soon happen to me. If I stood up to Jake, I could expect him to try to get me fired from The Tor Project. To try to block my acceptance into the doctorate research program he knew that I was, at that point in time, applying to. To feed the media stories about what a horrible person I am. To ostracise me from my social circles.

 

In all of this, I tried to do the right thing, to ensure that no more people were harmed, to give Jake one more chance. I wanted the anarchist, rehabilitation-focused solution, but Jake had only responded to that with threats. Meanwhile, River and I were introduced through a mutual friend. When Jake threatened me, I was, for a moment, frightened. Then I flew into a fucking rage. Sorry, Jake, but attempting to blackmail me into silence whilst I was defending others is really not a good look for an “anarchist” “free-speech advocate”.

 

Having run out of ideas and being threatened out of alternative options, I reported everything to the rest of The Tor Project. Well, almost everything. Originally, I only reported others’ stories (with their permission). I left my own story out, and I did not tell it until it was decided that Jake would no longer be part of The Tor Project.

 

The Trees

 

This isn’t about any one individual’s story. This is about addressing the issues and finding means within our communities to ensure this doesn’t happen again. This is about building communal structures so that it does not require, as Jake has rather entertainingly called it, “calculated and targeted attacks” from victims who otherwise felt alone and powerless to stand up and fight back.

 

I have spoken personally with every person whose story was published in the original set on the anonymous site. I am convinced beyond reasonable doubt that each of them is true. I added my own story to the site in solidarity with the other victims, especially these who remain anonymous, as someone with the social standing, and hence, enormous level of privilege, required to be able to eventually go public. Many of the other victims do not have this privilege. Whether due to marginalisation, fear of retailiation, or being new to our communities, many sexual assault victims require anonymity, because — without anonymity — they would be silenced.

 

Jake never apologised to me, nor — to my knowledge — any of the other victims. I don’t condone his actions. However, and no apologies for being crass, I can’t seem to motivate myself to feel any pity towards him for any of the admittedly horrible things which are now happening to him. He ruined lives. The number of people we would have in a significantly more productive and less damaged state were it not for his actions is substantial, and futher, those people in a less damaged state would be overall substantially more beneficial than having a Jake in a less damaged state. Additionally, we would likely have had more diverse contributors to Tor, if we had dealt with Jake sooner, since, for years, many people have been warned about Jake through a whisper network and disuaded from becoming involved.

 

There are some differences between how Jake is behaving to how the other anarchist I mentioned above was behaving. The other anarchist was willing to engage in the defined process, respectful of his victims’ needs, and eventually sincerely apologetic for his actions.

 

I cannot condone his actions; however, I cannot condone violence and threats against Jake. Full stop. That is not productive. If he is further harmed, we never see the end of the wretched abused-abuser cycle.

 

People who behave as Jake does are sick, and they need help. Often, it is because they were severely hurt at some point. As the activist adage goes, “We need to be gentle with one another, so that we can be dangerous together.” If we think Jake has any capacity for change, then it is our responsibility to ensure that he is not simply swept under a rug of academia where he will most certainly find a deeply-ingrained institutional structure of rape apologists ready to turn a blind eye and willing to help Jake “fail up” to another position of power and credibility, where he will use that power to commit further acts of abuse. I am thoroughly dismayed for what is statistically likely to happen again, causing harm to and trust issues for their students, and professional and reputational issues for them.

 

Realpolitiking

 

Now. For all of you screaming “This is not what justice looks like! Why don’t you just go to the police?!” let me just wax realpolitik and, like a good little German, quote some Gesetz and cite some statistics.

 

The “due process” of a state court, in my case, will be detrimental to both Jake and I, as well as numerous other people. The law is very clearly against both of us in this case, with the overwhelmingly likely outcome that he would be kicked out of Germany. (Additionally, in Germany, multiple independent allegations can result in a conviction given the absense of other evidence.)

 

The other outcome is one or more convictions. While convictions for rape and sexual assault are statistically unlikely, given that only about 7% of reported rapes result in a conviction with similar numbers for Germany, we have an advantage. By German case law, multiple independent allegations are very likely to result in conviction(s), even despite the absense of other evidence, e.g. bruises, marks, semen, which would be required in a solitary allegation. If brought to court, here are some of the applicable laws and their corresponding minimum/maximum prison terms:

 

Forest

River

  • One count of rape (§177 of the Strafsgesetzbuch paragraph 1), including
  • Instructing a third party to rape the victim (§177 of the Strafsgesetzbuch paragraph 2, sentence 2), making it a “severe case”,
  • Both counts were penetrative intercourse (§177 of the Strafsgesetzbuch paragraph 2, sentence 1), also making it a “severe case”,
  • The victim was additionally in an unconscious state and uncapable of verbal or physical resistance (§179 of the Strafsgesetz, including paragraph 5, as well as paragraph 5 sentence 2): minimum: two years; maximum: ten years.

Sam

Totalling to four years minimum and thirty-five years maximum for those cases alone, along with potential fines and reparations, and expulsion from the country afterwards (cf. §53 and §54 of the Aufenthaltsgesetz). (For English speakers curious about the German laws I’m referencing, there are also official English translations.)

 

Not to mention that, if our goal is to prevent more people from being harmed by Jake, prison is not an option. Overwhelmingly likely, even in Germany, Jake would be raped in prison. I do not wish these painful things I’ve gone through on anyone, not even those who have caused me pain. Further, most abusers have a history of having been abused at some point in their past, and Jake going to prison certainly will not help him amend his behaviour.

 

Alternatives

 

Some people are asking what the victims want out of this.

 

Personally, I would be completely ecstatic if Jake decided to move to Alaska. Forever. Jake is still threatening the other victims to try to keep them quiet, and additional reports of extremely severe sexual assaults and rape are pouring in to The Tor Project. Meanwhile, Jake is preparing some sort of public “apology” statement. Alaska, or northern Siberia — it doesn’t matter. Until his sociopathic behaviours are revised, there is no place for him in civil society.

 

As it is obviously rather untenable that Jake move to Alaska, I suggest the following. Please note that these are my suggestions alone, and do not necessarily at this point in time reflect those of all of the other victims. We’re all still processing this.

  1. We need to entirely remove abusers from our communities, until such a time as they have sufficiently demonstrated to their victims that their abusive behaviours will no longer continue. Jake should be removed from all places where his victims, their loved ones, and friends might come into any form of contact with him. Given the enormous amounts of pain myself and the other victims have gone through, the draining emotional stress, and (please excuse my rather dark humour) the development time wasted, I am not willing to revisit this issue for at least four years. After that time has passed, it may be possible to reassess whether there is any path forward for Jake.

  2. We need to assess the cultural issues within our communities which require that victims report anonymously, due to fears of retaliation, further abuse, and not being taken seriously. Once identified, we need to devise better reporting and support structures to help allay these fears.

  3. We need to take victims’ stories seriously. It should not be required that victims band together in collectives in order to be heard. Nor should it be required that someone who stands up for others must have and share their own story of victimisation to “prove” the credibility of the others, as was my case. It should not be required that a dozen people are harmed before any one of them is taken seriously.

  4. We need to critique the institutions — sociocultural, academic, and organisational — which made these events possible.

  5. Those who must still have some form of contact with Jake, and by that I primarily mean others within the academic and journalistic communities, need to be given ways to raise safety and ethical concerns without fear of retribution or retaliation. It is my understanding that several researchers and students do not currently feel this way, and that this is having a severe impact upon their abilities to be successful and productive.

Lastly, I would like to say that I’ve never been prouder to work for The Tor Project, as their recent actions to stand against abuse have set nothing short of an exemplary model for other organisations.

 

https://blog.patternsinthevoid.net/the-forest-for-the-trees.html

13.06.2016


Isis Agora Lovecruft

 


 

There’s really no such thing as the ‘voiceless’. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard. — Arundhati Roy

 

I’m coming forward today as one of the people Jake Appelbaum sexually assaulted. Last week I submitted my story to the anonymous site jacobappelbaum.net: I am “Sam”. Today, I am going public because like others who’ve spoken out before me, I am fortunate that my privilege shields me from some of the risks of public exposure. I have been involved in Tor for about a year and a half, and I met Jake shortly after joining and we became pretty close. Despite being a relative newcomer, I got highly involved in Tor quickly, and many of the anonymous victims do not have my established trust and visibility in the community, so today I am using my power to speak up for those who cannot.

 

Jake was my friend, and it took months to be honest with myself about what happened. As I recount in my previously anonymous story, when I approached him about it he would redirect the conversation to tell me why he was the real victim. He said anything else I’d heard about his behavior was part of a political smear campaign that, as his friend, I must help defend him against. He said what I’d experienced myself and seen him do to others were aberrations, and that he was a totally different person.

 

I began asking questions in the community to see who else had stories. What I heard was shocking — a pattern of violative and often violent behavior using manipulation, humiliation, ignoring boundaries, and outright coercion.

 

When my friend “River” shared with me (and a few trusted others) the details of how he raped her, and I knew things had to radically change. I and others took our stories to Shari Steele and other leadership at Tor Project.

 

Shari’s response, and the response of other leaders and members of our community, has been fair and appropriate. I am proud that our community confronted a difficult problem honestly and with strength.

 

I was troubled by some of the misguided defenses of Jake. People speaking up were dismissed as a lynch mob — an ahistorical and offensive way to describe a critical mass of people who had previously been silenced and were demanding accountability. There have been repeated calls for “due process” and the involvement of the court system, which ignores the violence that system perpetuates against both accuser and accused. Calls for police intervention are particularly alarming to hear from a community in which so many advocate for a stateless society. It turned out that one third-party account was mistaken, and people tried to use that mistake to cast doubt on multiple first-person accounts, many from trusted members of our community.

 

So let me recap where we are now. Seven people anonymously told their stories on jacobappelbaum.net. They included first-person accounts of Jake deliberately intimidating and shaming people, not taking no for an answer, undressing and sexually touching a person who was sleeping, and having sex in front of a group with a person who had repeatedly said no. Leigh Honeywell told how Jake violated her safeword during sex, humiliated her other partners, and made her feel scared. Violet Blue tweeted that he “hated and threatened me because I wouldn’t fuck him,” and that afterwards he tried to humiliate and bully her. Nick Farr described Jake angrily harassing him for days at 30c3, to the point where Nick never went back to CCC. Bill Budington tweeted that he “personally witnessed the testimony of “Phoenix”,” who had described being propositioned and humiliated by Jake at dinner, and Micah Lee replied “I did too.” Andy Isaacson tweeted “I’d question the judgement or honesty of anyone who knows Jake well and seriously doubts the veracity of those first-person stories.”

 

I want to thank everyone who has spoken up, either telling their own stories or in support of the stories of others. I hope our public solidarity will encourage even more to speak out against assault. People who feel comfortable sharing information about Jake’s conduct can contact Shari Steele, the executive director of Tor Project. You can reach her at ssteele@torproject.org and her PGP key fingerprint is 69B4 D9BE 2765 A81E 5736 8CD9 0904 1C77 C434 1056.

 

How did we allow this to happen? We prioritized decentralization in our technology, yet allowed power to concentrate in one man who abused people for years. Jake’s behavior is representative of a systemic problem, grounded in a star culture that has allowed individual fame to overpower the ability of the community to recognize its collective needs. The “shut up and code” mentality creates a hostility to basic human empathy — talking about feelings, offering support, engendering individual and collective growth — which could have helped with accountability and prevention. Many people who wanted to be close to Jake’s fame enabled his abusive behavior. None of this is unique to hackerdom — but beware those who insist it can’t happen here. We should ask ourselves why those people didn’t feel safe speaking up sooner.


So what should we do now?

 

First and most importantly, Jake’s response to all this is not sufficient. His defensiveness betrays his hostility to our complaints. He said that whenever he has “inadvertently hurt or offended” people, he “[has] and will continue to, apologize.” That’s a non-apology. In the same statement, he decried “aggressive,” “unsubstantiated and unfounded” “vague rumors and smear campaigns” “spread[ing] vicious and spurious allegations,” and claimed that “the accusations of criminal sexual misconduct against me are entirely false.” (Note he only denied that he committed a crime, a dubious technicality.) He complained “the damage to my reputation is impossible to undo.”

 

Jake is putting the focus on himself. He doesn’t care about the people he has hurt. If he did, he would make a full and unreserved apology, and then take steps to make amends and figure out how to stop hurting people in the future. That’s not what he’s doing.

 

Rather than allow Jake to play the victim, we must put the focus on his actual victims, and come to terms with what has happened and what comes next. Many victims and allies have been advocating to create a model of transformative justice — a radical approach to problem-solving that recognizes the failures of the carceral system and attempts to bring about justice and peace through community-led non-violent action. Transformative justice identifies root causes and works toward comprehensive outcomes. It means support for both victims and the people who have done harm, while holding the harmful behavior to account. It demands open lines of communication and mechanisms to ensure that no single voice is given more power than any other. It prioritizes empathy and does not denigrate conflict as “drama”. Transformative justice means that people who care about Jake should reach out and hold him accountable, and support him seeking help if he’s willing to address the harm he’s done. It means separating the abuser from those he’s harmed, and creating preventive systems that teach people about consent, recognizing abuse, and creating mechanisms for reporting and responding to harmful behavior.

 

Moving forward together, here are specific steps our community could take next:

 

0. Jake must be excluded from all community activities as a precondition for healing.

 

1. We must believe victims, and continue to foster an environment where they feel safe to report their stories of abuse.

 

2. As a community, we continue to create mechanisms for:

 

2.1 teaching and learning consent awareness

 

2.2 abuse prevention and response, which includes systems of support and accountability

 

2.3 truth and reconciliation as a community

 

3. People who love Jake and want him to heal should make a support group for him. Those people should bear in mind that he has not apologized nor admitted to any wrongdoing, and they should hold him accountable for what he’s done.

 

I am invigorated by the networks of solidarity that have been formed as victims come forward — this community is full of brave, vibrant, relentless people working endlessly to realize our shared vision of freedom, and I am looking forward to the work we do next. I am grateful to the organizations that have already taken steps in response to the multiple substantiated allegations — Noisebridge, Cult of the Dead Cow, Freedom of the Press Foundation, and of course, my beloved Tor Project. I’ve never been prouder to be a Tor contributor; thank you, Shari, for believing victims, and to those members of Tor Project who are working to iterate the community we really want. Dozens more in our community have already reached out to me, and I’m eager to hear more about existing community-driven methods toward justice and reconciliation.

 

We build alternatives to oppressive systems, and we can build alternatives to interpersonal structures as well. Let’s be careful with each other so we can be dangerous together.

 

Alison Macrina

15 June 2016

macrina@riseup.net

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https://medium.com/@flexlibris/theres-really-no-such-thing-as-the-voicel...

15.06.2016

 



“But he does good work.”
“But he does good work.”

Right now, my inbox holds media requests from Buzzfeed, Daily Dot, Guardian, Associated Press, and newly, La Repubblica, Italy’s largest newspaper. They are working on stories about Jacob Appelbaum. Specifically, his history in tech and hacking as it relates to his harassment and abuse of others, and the astonishingly widening pool of victims and witnesses coming forward in the past ten days.

 

Most of the outlets are having a hard time wrapping their heads around how this could go on so long within arenas whose missions are to fight against injustice and power imbalances, and to champion whistleblowers. One might think these organizations were hypocrites, or worse. Some of the articles lean toward framing hacking and tech, our communities, businesses, and conferences, as places where sexual abuse and harassment is rampant and abusers are institutionally protected.

 

To understand why they’re not entirely wrong, why this was allowed to continue for so long, and how we make sure this ends here, we need to examine some difficult things.

 

#

 

Two weeks ago Tor Project evangelist (“lead developer“) Jacob Appelbaum, a frequent representative for Wikileaks/Julian Assange and Edward Snowden, resigned from Tor Project. When Tor was mum on reasons, infosec community pressure prompted Tor to make a statement. It said Appelbaum had been accused of sexual misconduct, and admitted that these issues had been known about for years. A website sprung up encouraging anonymous submissions by victims. Soon after, several people came forth with stories, and not all of them anonymous. They detailed incidents of sexual harassment, rape, stalking, personal threats, and more.

 

Appelbaum issued a denial. The denial was summarily skewered by a Tor community member. The publicist for Appelbaum suggested there would be legal repercussions for libel, but soon walked back that statement. Tor Project’s director went on to tell Wired that someone was indeed raped, that the project is working with legal, and that she “absolutely believes” the victim. One separate story of Appebaum’s harassment was refuted, and the motivations of the refutation have been called into question. Another website appeared, comprised of women pledging their support of Appelbaum; Daily Dot has since raised significant questions for the people involved in this website.

 

More witnesses and stories have surfaced since. These include Bill Budington of the EFF, Micah Lee of the Intercept, Nick Farr, Quinn Norton, Leigh Honeywell, Alison Macrina, Andrea Shepard, Meredith Patterson, and Isis Agora Lovecruft.

 

The question we have to ask is, how many more are there?

 

#

 

I met Jake in early 2005. He hung around a few different branches of the hacker scenes I was in and around. The joke about him, told to me as a cautionary comment by one of the Codecon/early BitTorrent guys, was that everyone said he was a “recovering mysoginist.” Meaning, he was not recovering, and was quite the opposite. He had a reputation for not being able to keep a job for long, and for leaving them on ‘scorched earth’ terms.

 

He tried, in a variety of ways and in different situations and parties and events, to convince me to have sex with him. I said no over and over, and as time went by, he became angrier and angrier with me. I was working with an arts organization during those years, and we ended up kicking him out of our machine shop. The only other person who held that status because of persistent sexual harassment on multiple crew members was Captain Crunch (John Draper). And there is a huge parallel here with both of these men, and the hacking community’s unwillingness to deal with men like this, especially when they are “famous.”

 

Like with all guys who start to treat you like shit when you won’t put out, I generally avoided him and the parties and events he went to.

 

Appelbaum got a job working at Kink.com around 2006, when the company was still at its old location. It was a very different company back then, and had a very warm, accessible, and lively community and culture. At the old Mission Street location, Kink would open its doors at 5pm for happy hour on Fridays, and it was a friends and family thing. I’d known Peter Acworth since long before Appelbaum was hired, and we have always been friends. Also at that time, Good Vibrations (my former employer) was two blocks away, and there was so much hiring between the companies it was almost like there was an exchange program going on — so I knew a lot of people who worked there, and still do to this day. Also at this time, the San Francisco Chronicle was one block away, where I was the resident sex columnist. All of these things contributed to the fact that I was a regular at Kink’s happy hour, when they’d open the “bar” set as a sort-of club for employees and friends to unwind, with beer and wine.

 

At these happy hours, employees could give “tours” to friends, where they’d take a group of people around to the different sets and the set-building areas. You could grab a beer in the bar set, and go check out the fake foam floors that looked just like wood in the fake barn set, and come back to the bar with a twig of (real) hay in your teeth like a happy pervy tourist. It was fun. Often, the machine and wood shop set-building areas were where employees in a metal band would be having their Friday band practice.

 

When Jake got hired, he started giving tours. I only went on one of them. I had invited my editor and colleagues from the Chronicle to that happy hour, and we decided to go with him when Jake began leading people through the buildings for his tour. Kink’s main offices at that time were a wide, open-plan floor, with no walls and rows of desks. I was standing with my Chronicle editor, Eve Batey, when Jake told the group he fucked the models, and that he’d ejaculate under or around the desk of someone he didn’t like. He joked, “Don’t drop your muffin, buddy!” And that’s when Eve and I bailed out.

 

At a happy hour after that, I remember Jake calling to me from across the room (the bar set) so he could introduce me to a couple of friends. They were two male hackers, one who was (and still is) very well-known. Jake said, “Guys, this is Violet Blue. She gives great head.” I was caught by surprise and mad as hell. He was trying to sexually humiliate me as an introduction to these peers with a lie. The men stood there in uncomfortable silence, looking everywhere but at me. I turned to Jake and said, “I think you have me confused with a certain blonde blogger,” and told the men it was nice to meet them, and I left.

 

This is one of his most common attacks: Lying about fucking someone in a public declaration to their face and in front of their colleagues. Humiliating the target while attempting to violate her privacy.

 

I’m far from alone. Isis Lovecruft wrote, “He even went so far as to, on the very first [Tor Project] meeting on the first morning, in front of all the other developers — whom I had not yet met — tell me that he was okay with my partner and I fucking in the same bed as him while he watched, causing both of my partner and I to feel completely humiliated that our private sex life was being discussed in front of colleagues we had hoped to build a good start towards friendly, professional relationships.”

 

Buzzfeed called this Appelbaum’s ongoing tactic to make “public and false claims that he had sex with” whoever his target was. They reported this was “something multiple sources have told BuzzFeed News Appelbaum has ‘done to too many people to count.’”

 

Let me repeat: Intimate privacy violations publicly enacted on “too many people to count.” At institutions that champion privacy and attract those who need it the most.

 

Appelbaum has always attempted to make the hacker scene, and especially the zeitgeist of the hacktivist stage, his own. When Wikileaks happened, he publicly fashioned himself as a lieutenant. And as the voice of Julian Assange, presenting Assange’s CCC keynote and representing the man or that work, or being the gatekeeper, “evangelist” or public persona, whenever possible. He did the same to become part of, and endeavored to become synonymous with, the Edward Snowden documents, also making himself a representative of Snowden and accepting an award on his behalf, and again, a gatekeeper of this arena. Similarly with the Tor Project. He has also aligned himself with the Freedom of the Press Foundation and CCC. He holds secrets belonging to these people and these organizations, and has made himself very powerful.

 

These are causes, not just jobs or consulting gigs. They are symbols for fighting injustice, and crusading for those at risk of exploitation. Their reputations are fraught and fragile. To attack a person in them is to attack the movement. They are also male-dominated organizations, in the male-dominated realm of hacking, where very few of the men are willing to accept that their hacker heroes, team bosses, and conference buddies might be doing really, really fucked up things to women.

 

The question is, how long have authority figures at these causes known? Certainly Tor’s Roger Dingledine must have, and for quite a while.

 

Kink leadership dealt with the problem head-on. Jake almost literally ran out of Kink after they confronted him, leaving in his wake a lot of stories about employee rulebook changes being created to stop his inappropriate sexual antics, job performance issues … His flaming exit was made complete with a ragey email sent to the entire company before they locked him out of the system, and a bizarre public sexual proposition to a section manager (“you should really let me fuck your wife”) in front of a team. Scorched earth at the Armory. When the Tor Project statement hit on June 4, people from both Kink and that era of the SF Chronicle contacted me, recounting these incidents.

 

Outside of Kink, in 2007, Jake had sexually targeted a female friend of mine. Her and I were going to a large tech party in December; I think it was a Wikimedia party, and Jimmy Wales was there. My friend was feeling hunted by Jake, and early in the party she said he was trying to isolate her, and told me she was scared. She is not a big or strong girl, nor is she loud, and he was trying to convince her to go into a stairwell with him. The convincing turned into trying to pull her away physically, grabbing at her hands. I locked my arm with hers, and put myself in between her and Jake. All while he was trying to reach around me, while he was telling me to let go. I said No, she’s not going with you. I insisted a bit louder, No. He was livid.

 

The next time I saw him was at a friend’s engagement party, 2009. I was standing alone in a hallway waiting for the bathroom. Jake walked up and stood over me, glaring down into my eyes with what my date described as pure hate. I refused to move, I would not look away, and I stood my ground. He wouldn’t stop, and exhaled over me with a guttural sound. My date saw it happen from the next room. When he started to walk over, Jake then continued on his way down the hall. My date asked if I was okay and then said to me, “That’s it. Let’s get you out of here.”

 

These are not all of the stories. He repeated his 2009 behavior in passing at 30c3 when he ran into me in a stairwell, and the next day made a threat about me behind closed doors to a close friend. At CCC, where he is seen as the golden boy, the star of their stage.

#

Following the initial statement from Tor Project, and all the subsequent reactions, internal documents were leaked from Tor Project.

 

One was an email describing behavior that created a sexually hostile workplace. In a position of authority as a session leader for the Tor Project, Appelbaum told a group that new members were sexually recruited and vetted by him. Noting that he was already on notice for sexual misconduct, Tom Lekrone wrote that he’d confronted Jake about bragging that he was a sexual gatekeeper for Tor . Appelbaum replied to Lekrone saying that his “sexualized recruitment ‘strategy’ had ‘worked’ with the complainant.” Meaning, Jake not only told Lekrone he’d fucked the person who complained, but that their issue wasn’t valid because if Jake hadn’t fucked them into the organization in the first place, they wouldn’t even be there to complain about it.

 

Professor Wolf, one of the lambs has an issue with your recruitment strategy.


But apparently, they still thought Jake was doing good work for the Tor Project. The letter continued,

 

“We believe that, given the commitment to the Tor Project that you have demonstrated and Tor Project’s ability and willingness to support your further development, there is a strong likelihood that the employment relationship will be able to move forward in positive and productive directions.”

 

That same day Buzzfeed reported that Tor Project authorities “knew about Appelbaum’s inappropriate behavior, and for more than a year.” Sue Gardner said her friends “had been asking her why she was working with an organization that employs a rapist.” The article said “stories of sexual harassment — and worse — came to light at an emotional board dinner.”

 

The dinner was at a conference where stories of Appelbaum’s sexual harassment were the talk of the conference. Attempting to appeal to Tor Project authorities for help, Karen Reilly told Roger Dingledine, Wendy Seltzer, Andrew Lewman, and Gardner about “serial sexual and professional harassment” by Appelbaum.

 

While this was happening, a group of victims planned an amateur intervention, and Jake found out. Isis Lovecruft had helped to try and organize the failed intervention, and wrote that Jake went after each individual, then confronted her.

 

“Jake described all the time, effort, and ways he was using in order to completely ruin someone’s life who had attempted to stand up to him, as well as previous ways he had managed to get someone fired from their position and ostracised. He pointedly mentioned, several times, the names of multiple people who he had destroyed in the past for standing against him. In his current efforts to harass one of these people — which through backchannels I was already aware of, he said, “I’ve literally been spending 15 hours a day on this.”

 

Not knowing about the threat, but full well knowing for some time about the sexual harassment and abuse, “Tor conducted a human resources inquiry into the matter. Both Appelbaum and Reilly were given the option of taking a 10-day suspension or leaving the company with severance.”

 

For performing the role of whistleblower, Reilly faced this punishment “for spreading rumors about the Tor Project.” Unsurprisingly, she quit.

 

Appelbaum remained with the organization. Buzzfeed reported that in deliberation on what to do with Appelbaum, “It was a close call as to whether his benefits outweighed his liabilities.”

 

Let me explain something.

 

When harassment, sexual or otherwise, requires a cost-benefit analysis, you have failed.

You have failed your co-workers, your employees, your friends, the people you claim to serve with your work, and you have failed the future.

 

Not too long ago, a researcher made a presentation that generated a lot of false headlines. I called it out in an article, confused as to why no one else had. He harassed and abused me around the clock for days online, and very publicly; he tried to get me fired in revenge, and didn’t hide it. He wrote a crazy screed or two about me, and did interviews about harassing me, proud of his work.

 

After some time went by, one of my guy friends started retweeting him and quoting him. Many women know what this feels like. By validating the abuser, acts like these invalidate being terrorized in the eyes of your peers, and you find out the hard way that your friend is not really your friend. An arena closed off.

 

I sent my friend a direct message. I said, hey, don’t you remember what this guy did to me? How can you retweet him in a show of support when you saw what he did to me? My friend replied, “But he does good work.”


No. When someone harasses, humiliates, discounts, abuses, threatens, stalks, takes action to harm someone, no — they do not do good work. And this is one of the biggest problems in hacker culture, and it will always make me and my sisters and LGBT and non-white family unsafe.

 

If you find out someone is doing any of the things I have described in this essay, their work is not good. There is always, always someone else who can do that work. And that other person will do it better because they are not handicapped by being fucked up.

 

Appelbaum was allowed to do what he did because there was always someone there to say “but he does good work.” There was never a leader strong enough to stand up to him. Groups are easy to divide and conquer. Jake could always find people who didn’t know him, and sought out newcomers, so word of mouth warnings only helped those already connected.

 

Maybe they knew, or maybe they didn’t care enough to vet him, but CCC and Assange and Snowden gave him power and that needs to be part of this conversation, because we need look no further for proof that hero worship and the cult of belief is pure poison. He convinced people to trust him with secrets, like docs, and threatened the unthinkable if cornered. Jake also benefited greatly — and I can’t stress this enough — from journalists who did not check their facts, reporters who bought into his bullshit persecuted-hacker narrative, and blogs like Boing Boing who breathlessly starfucked his appropriated hacks and docs and reprehensible behavior into credibility.

 

This didn’t happen because we’re broken as a hacker culture, or because we’re hackers and thus too undeveloped to comprehend empathy. People like Jake can be found in other places; priests and churches, Hollywood, the porn industry, and more. Wherever power imbalances, hero worship, and secret-keepers intersect. People like Jake are found in hacker culture, too, and it’s past time for hacker culture to deal with it.

 

These “moving forward” steps are highly recommended.

 

https://medium.com/@violetblue/but-he-does-good-work-6710df9d9029#.7h7ks...

16.06.2016

 


 

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...den ganzen rotz in englisch zu schreiben, da das nicht meine muttersprache ist. ich möchte an dieser stelle gerne mal die frage aufwerfen, warum das thema erst jetzt hier auftaucht und dafür nochmal so richtig publikumswirksam ne bombastseite gebastelt wurde, bei der der aktuelle stand mal und gegenargumente zum postulat komplett untern tisch fallen gelassen werden. wer sich mit dem thema beschäftigt hat- die schlammschlacht tobt seit 5.6. in den betroffenen kreisen und ist über fefes blog und die dortigen querverlinkungen sehr gut dokumentierbar. nach lektüre aller quellen komme ich allerdings zum schluß, daß da so ziemlich garnix klar ist und mir eher die variante "gezielter rufmord" plausibler erscheint, um das mal in aller gebotenen vorsicht anzumerken.

 

macht euch lieber selbst mal ein bild und googelt euch durch das thema, bevor hier möglicherweise eine üble vorverurteilung eines unliebsamen menschen passiert.

If we think Jake has any capacity for change, then it is our responsibility to ensure that he is not simply swept under a rug of academia where he will most certainly find a deeply-ingrained institutional structure of rape apologists ready to turn a blind eye and willing to help Jake “fail up” to another position of power and credibility, where he will use that power to commit further acts of abuse.

In fefes blog dokumentiert....jaja
Was der Maskulinistenfreund und Querfront-Versteher fefe so alles dokumentiert hält einer objektiven Betrachtung keine 3 Minuten stand.
Und das diese Amerikaner nicht Deutsch schreiben ist natürlich ein Affront für nationale Masku-Kameraden

Einführung in den Fefismus
http://mspr0.de/?p=4272

Wenn hier schon mspro verlinkt wird, dann sollte auch seine Aussage "Ich bin kein Antikapitalist" nicht fehlen.

Was aber dieses Statement nun mit seiner richtigen Einschätzung über fefe, der sicher alles aber auch kein Antikapitalist ist, zu tun hat, könntest du nochmal erklären

hahaha, fefe, wie geil xD

 

versuchst du hier ernsthaft eine debatte über sexismus und feminismus zu starten und deine "seriöse quelle" ist fefe?

da musst du dich wohl noch mal mit herrn von leitner etwas genauer beschäftigen(und vielleicht mal nicht mit seinem persönlichen blog als quelle), dann kannste gern wieder kommen und hast vielleicht auch ein paar weniger seiner "feministen-verschwörungstheorien" im geistigen gepäck ;)

ich hab fefe nicht als seriöse quelle, sondern als praktische "kreuzung"  angegeben, von der sich alle erdenklichen positionen zu diesem thema ziemlich gemütlich und ohne großen aufwand finden lassen, ohne sich dumm und dämlich zu suchen. und so wenig wie ich jake und ihn ausstehen kann- ich halte mal sowas von garnix von selbstverliebten arroganzbolzen- wenn du dir die mühe machen solltest und daneben auch felix selbst zu diesem thema chronologisch liest, dann kannste dir in diesem fall sogar irgendwelche "feministischen verschwörungstheorien" sonstwo hin stecken, da er in diesem speziellen fall kein einziges wort in der richtung abgelassen hat und- in meinen augen überraschenderweise- ziemlich lange ne äußerst vorsichtige position vertreten hat. also bitte erstmal mit dem thema gründlich befassen, bevor man (nein, auch nicht prophylaktisch) in irgendeine richtung rumpöbelt.

 

ich will vielmehr drauf raus, daß mir das ganze langsam eher wie ne art "assange 2.0" vorkommt, in der in diesem fall sogar- als "schmankerl" obendrauf mit hilfe der defma unbequeme leute jetzt auch in linksradikalen kreisen gleich mit rufmorden will. das stinkt sowas von nach "false flag" und drum rate ich eben in diesem falle zur besonderen vorsicht bis zur vorlage von beweisen.

 

und nochwas zum thema "verschwörungstheorien":

schon mal drüber nachgedacht, daß in einem großteil von sachlagen, bei der dieser terminus fiel, im nachhinein rauskam, daß auch tatsächlich verschwörungsähnliche umstände vorlagen?

fefe zur Causa Appelbaum:

 

Ich persönlich kann mit "der hat mich emotional ausgenutzt" als Vorwurf nichts anfangen. Zum Ausnutzen gehören immer mindestens zwei. Einer, der ausnutzt. Einer, der sich ausnutzen lässt.

 

Und da kannst du auch danach niemandem die Schuld zuschieben als dir selbst. Wenn du schon dir selbst gegenüber nicht genug Wertschätzung und Respekt aufbringen kannst, um dich aus solchen Situationen zurückzuziehen, wie kannst du es dann von Außenstehenden erwarten?

 

Stellt euch mal vor, eure Tochter/Nichte wird vergewaltigt, und ihr erfahrt danach, dass es seit Jahren entsprechende Geschichten über den gibt, aber die anderen Opfer sind nicht zur Polizei gegangen. Hättet ihr dann nicht vergleichbar viel Hass auf den Täter wie auf die, die ihn nicht angezeigt haben?

 

Quelle: https://blog.fefe.de/?mon=201606

Immer schön alles aus dem Kontext reisen, damit es wieder passt. Hier der komplette Beitrag. Bin kein Riesenfreund von Fefe, aber er denkt äußerst rational. Das finde ich bemerkenswert, da es den meisten meiner Zeitgenossen abgeht.

Zuerst mal: der Beitrag ist in meinem Kommentar verlinkt.

 

Dann zu deinem "Argument", fefe würde rational denken. So what? Seit wann haben Charakter und (rationale) Intelligenz irgendwas miteinander zu tun? fefe ist ein Machoschwein und seine Aussagen belegen das sehr gut. Er gibt den Opfern eine Mitschuld, wie es die meisten Sexisten tun. Ganz rational.

Zuerst einmal: ist er nicht. klick mal auf deinen Link. Kein Plan von nix, aber Schacht aufreisen...

 

Zum rational Denken: Dazu gehört jede Situation von möglichst allen Seiten Beleuchten, soweit einem das möglich ist. Und sich selbst dann noch sehr vorsichtig zu äußern. Das finde ich einen sehr gute Eigenschaft. Hier ein Beispiel aus dem von dir eben nicht verlinkten Beitrag:

Zu Jake Appelbaum kamen wenig überraschend Dutzende von Mails rein. Natürlich einige davon das Übliche, von Leuten mit Leseschwäche, die mir unterstellen, ich würde Vergewaltigung relativieren oder Victim Blaming betreiben. Daber habe ich extra explizit mit

Zu den Vergewaltigungsvorwürfen kann ich nichts sagen
aufgemacht, damit auch wirklich dem letzten Lesekompetenz-Durchfaller klar ist, dass sich das Folgende auf die anderen Vorwürfe bezieht.

 

Tja, lesen... ist so eine Sache. Dass Schreihälse wie du Rationalität nicht als etwas positives betrachten und daher die Logik dahinter nicht verstehen ist mir klar. Deswegen ist die Welt auch so scheiße wie sie ist.

Zuerst einmal: ist er nicht. klick mal auf deinen Link. Kein Plan von nix, aber Schacht aufreisen...

Bist du zu blöd auf den Link zu klicken und per Strg+F nach "Ausnutzen" zu suchen?

 

fefe äußert sich mitnichten vorsichtig. Er kann offenbar Jacob Appelbaum nicht leiden, aber das ist auch schon alles. Seine Disclaimer sollen ihn gegen Kritik immun machen ("seht her, ich habe die Kritik zur Kenntnis genommen und aufgegriffen, deshalb ist sie gegenstandslos"), aber das ist eine sehr billige Strategie, die höchstens bei Fanboys wie dir greift. Ansonsten ist er der Frauenfeind, der er immer war.

ok, dann hier mal exemplarisch der gesamte absatz:

"Dann gibt es da noch das Argument, dass es Überwindung kostet, zur Polizei zu gehen, wenn einem die Story peinlich ist. Klar. Aber das ist kein Argument. Du gehst ja nicht FÜR DICH zur Polizei, um Rache zu üben. Du gehst zur Polizei, damit jemand diesen Typen aus dem Verkehr zieht, damit nicht noch andere zu Schaden kommen. Wenn es nur um dich selbst ginge, dann wäre das ein Argument. Tut es aber nicht. Wenn ein Täter das nächste Opfer vergewaltigt, und du bist zur Polizei gegangen und die haben nichts gemacht, dann ist das deren Verkacken. Wenn du gar nicht erst hingegangen bist, ist es dein Verkacken. Aus meiner Sicht gibt es die Option "nicht hingehen" nicht, egal wie peinlich oder schwierig das ist und egal wie unwahrscheinlich es ist, dass die helfen. Als Opfer weißt du aus erster Hand, wie Scheiße das ist, Opfer zu sein. Es ist deine verdammte Pflicht, dafür zu sorgen, dass das anderen erspart bleibt.

 

Stellt euch mal vor, eure Tochter/Nichte wird vergewaltigt, und ihr erfahrt danach, dass es seit Jahren entsprechende Geschichten über den gibt, aber die anderen Opfer sind nicht zur Polizei gegangen. Hättet ihr dann nicht vergleichbar viel Hass auf den Täter wie auf die, die ihn nicht angezeigt haben?"

 

wo ist diese aussage denn jetzt bitte besser? fefe kann noch so weise daherlabern, er hat anscheinend keine ahnung was eine vergewaltigung oder übergriffiges verhalten bei der betroffenen person(das hat auch nix mit dem gender zu tun) auslöst und dass die polizei auch nicht gerade einen riesen vertrauensbonus bei betroffenen von sexualisierter gewalt genießt, schon allein weil die bullen selber oft genug solche gewalt ausüben.

 

fefes absatz schiebt den opfern solcher gewalt nämlich nicht nur die schuld für deren nichthandeln zu sondern extra noch die indirekte schuld für darauf folgende übergriffe des/der täter_in auf andere, DAS ist die logik in der fefe sich suhlt und das ist unterstes victim-blaming, da kannst du hier noch so auf kleinigkeiten herum reiten.

 

also hier gern noch mal an fefe und auch an dich:
FUCK YOU!

fefe ist ein antifeminist und war es auch schon immer, so einen menschen oder seinen blog werd ich nicht als "praktische kreuzung" oder whatever in so einer thematik zu hilfe nehmen um aufgrund seiner informationen und links(die er ja persönlich und subjektiv vorfiltert in "seriös"/vertrauenswürding und "unseriös"/nicht vertrauenswürdig, was er gerade bei der thematik sexismus und feminismus schon oft genug bewiesen hat) meine position darzustellen.

 

wenn du dich schon so lange mit fefe beschäftigst, dann solltest du mittlerweile mitbekommen haben das fefe gern mal victimblaming positionen und der gleichen vertritt und oft genug die grenze zum antifeminismus(chauvinismus und so) überschreitet.

ob er das macht weil das seine meinung ist oder um "heraus zu stechen" ist mir dabei egal, fakt ist das er das seit jahren macht, ich hab seinen blog mehrere jahre fast täglich besucht um genau auf sowas zu achten.

 

genau das mein ich, "assange 2.0", "false flag" und defma-bashing, das ist genau fefe's sparte von argumentation.

und wenn du seine aussagen zu diesem fall als "vorsichtige position" wahr nimmst dann trennen uns eh welten was feminismus und antisexismus angeht.

solche aussagen, wie ein_e andere kommentator_in hier geschrieben hat, bei denen er sowas von sich gibt:

"Stellt euch mal vor, eure Tochter/Nichte wird vergewaltigt, und ihr erfahrt danach, dass es seit Jahren entsprechende Geschichten über den gibt, aber die anderen Opfer sind nicht zur Polizei gegangen. Hättet ihr dann nicht vergleichbar viel Hass auf den Täter wie auf die, die ihn nicht angezeigt haben?"

wenn du das als "vorsichtige position" verstehst dann musst du dich mal mit der thematik victim-blaming und antisexismus näher beschäftigen oder vielleicht noch mal tiefgründiger denn anscheinend hast du da was nicht so ganz verstanden.

 

oder vielleicht findest du ja eine verdammt liebe und großzügige betroffene, die dir mal erklärt wie beschissen schwierig es ist überhaupt die kraft aufzubringen überhaupt irgendetwas als betroffene gegen vergewaltiger/täter_innen zu unternehmen oder gar zu den bullen damit zu gehen.

 

zu deinem letztem absatz fällt mir eigentlich nur ein:

FICK DICH!

als ob du alle fälle von vergewaltigungen/sexistischen übergriffen kennst aber klar, ein paar negativbeispiele reichen fefe und solchen chauvinistischen archgeigen wie ihm ja auch schon seit jahren um das definitionsmachtkonzept als "gescheitert" zu bezeichnen und ihre alternative ist dann nämlich einfach mal GAR NICHTS!

das ist auf jeden fall richtig gut für die betroffenen und das ist ja auch offensichtlich in der durchschnittsgesellschafft, dass das echt klasse funktioniert, ne?

Zu nur einem der Vorwürfe gibt es u.a. auch diese Darstellung. Das soll (erstmal) nichts über den Wahrheitsgehalt der anderen Vorwürfe aussagen, aber das zu Unterschlagen lässt kein gutes Licht auf die Vorwürfe insgesamt fallen. Außerdem: In der emotionalen (ersten) Hilfe ist "glauben" tatsächlich ein guter Weg. Was Strafe (und auch solche Rufmordkampagnen sind eine Form der Strafe) angeht, gilt immer erst die Unschuldsvermutung, mal ganz abgesehen davon, dass ich eine Welt wünsche, die ohne Strafe auskommt.

 

(http://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1sop8ps)

On June 7, 2016, Gizmodo published a story in which “eyewitnesses” - Emerson Tan, Meredith Paterson, and Andrea Shepard - supposedly “recount” Jacob Applebaum’s “unwanted sexual advances”. The article was quickly picked up and developed further, for example by the dailydot. I am the girl in that story. 

I recall that night clearly, and my story is entirely different. This is how it happened. 

I have been romantically involved with Jacob Appelbaum, but I also consider him a close friend. That night in Hamburg, it was the 26th of December, we had dinner with several friends in the Raddison Blu Restaurant. After visiting the 32C3 venue, we, together with a large group of people, went to the Raddison Blu Hotel Bar. We sat down at the bar and had drinks. I was sitting on Jacob’s lap, next to him was a close friend and his partner, and on our other side another friend. Jake and I were flirting with each other all night.

Tan and Patterson recall the situation as follows:

“Jake has his hands all over this girl, and she is very obviously not very happy. You know, she’s looking for her bag, they’re having a conversation and she’s looking for her bag she can’t find her bag and she appears to be really quite distressed and Appelbaum forcibly attempts to try and kiss her, grabs her arm and her backside and makes a move for her breasts.” 

I did indeed look not very happy. I was emotionally distressed at that time and told Jake, one of my close confidants, about my situation. He did have his hands all over me, just as I had my hands all over him. At no point did Jake forcibly attempt to try and kiss me, nor did he grab me in any inappropriate manner.

While we were talking, I realized that I didn’t have my bag with me, and started looking for it. Anyone who has ever lost sight of their wallet and phone will look “quite distressed” as a consequence. 

According to Tan and Patterson, none of our friends seemed to see anything wrong with that situation:

“And the other males who we were with were basically just kind of joking amongst themselves and don’t really seem to see anything wrong with it, which is really quite distressing” 

This is true. There was nothing wrong with it. I was among several friends with whom I felt absolutely safe.

Around 2 am, three of us – me, Jake, and another friend – decided to go to sleep. Each of us was heading “home”: Jake had a room in the Raddison Blu Hotel, while I had a different accommodation. My other friend was staying at another hotel, close to the Raddison Blu. That friend and I thus decided to leave the Raddison together.

The next day, I wasn’t going to be at the conference, so I didn’t expect to see Jake for a couple of weeks. Jake and I said goodbye to each other in the hotel lobby, and we kissed. But since my friend was waiting for me to leave, I playfully pushed Jake away.

At that time, I noticed Emerson Tan for the first time – since he was intervening at that point. He states:

“So I watched this for about two to three minutes and then I decide to go and do something and just mount a very very subtle intervention. Which is, I go over, I shake Jake’s hand I tell him what a great job he’s doing with the Tor project and the rest of it and that gives the girl roughly the 30 seconds she needs to find her bag without being in an undistracted fashion.”

I recall Tan approaching me, asking me if Jacob was harassing me. I said he wasn't. Nevertheless, Tan dragged me away and immediately started talking intensely to Jake. At that point I decided to leave, since my friend was waiting for me. I walked him to his hotel, which was only a couple of blocks away.
 
Tan obviously interpreted the situation differently:

“She left, and I found her hiding out in the hotel bar later, after Jake had left. She was pretty composed but obviously upset.”

I want to make clear that I was not “hiding” in the hotel bar. I had come back because I regretted not having properly said goodbye to Jake, so I hoped to catch him in the lobby. I waited for a couple of minutes at the bar, looking for him. After approximately ten minutes, I left again.

Reading this highly distorted version of my experience, which is being used as one of the “bulletproof examples” of Jacob’s alleged misbehavior, I can’t help but wonder.

Wonder about all the stories that have been published the last days.
Wonder not only about mob justice on twitter, caused by rumors and speculation, but also about the accounts repeated by those who call themselves journalists.
Wonder about how many other stories have been willingly misinterpreted.
Wonder about the witnesses in all these stories, who coincidentally always seem to consist of the same set of people.
Wonder about their motive to speak on my behalf without my consent.

Das ist genau die Täterschutz, der dort kritisiert wurde! Lies doch erst mal die Texte oben, bevor du einen Vergewaltiger in Schutz nimmst und mit einer Wortergreifungsstrategie versuchst, alles in Zweifel zu ziehen und dadurch ein Gefühl von "kann so sein, kann so sein, ich solidarisiere mich nicht" zu erzeugen!

 

I was troubled by some of the misguided defenses of Jake. People speaking up were dismissed as a lynch mob — an ahistorical and offensive way to describe a critical mass of people who had previously been silenced and were demanding accountability. There have been repeated calls for “due process” and the involvement of the court system, which ignores the violence that system perpetuates against both accuser and accused. Calls for police intervention are particularly alarming to hear from a community in which so many advocate for a stateless society. It turned out that one third-party account was mistaken, and people tried to use that mistake to cast doubt on multiple first-person accounts, many from trusted members of our community.

Super, nach Masku-Fefe wirft MANN jetzt auch noch den reaktionären Don Alphonso von der FAZ ins Rennen zur Sexistenverteidigung. Was kommt als nächstes, Links zu Arne Hoffmann?

Kannst ja die Meinung im Artikel ausblenden. Die Fakten sind schon interessant.

aha, wusste nicht dass wir uns kennen! ;-) wie wäre es damit einfach zu lesen und sich mit dem sachverhalt außeinander zu setzen? ich hoffe du liest nicht ernsthaft nur texte von menschen die dir nach dem mund schreiben.

mir bleibt die Spucke weg.

 

 

Also Jake hing immer mal wieder in der c-base.org rum, die Runge Str. 20 an der Jannowitzbrücke und ist dort Ehrenmitglied. Jake ist nervig, er kann beim Karaokesingen kaum das Mikro abgeben, ich kenne niemanden, der wirklich begeistert ist von seiner Art.

 

Ich möchte Fefe rechtgeben, dass es auch ein Statement ist, dass die Leute von TOR sich jahrelang mit ihm abgegeben haben.

 

 

In den Kommentaren kommt etwas zu kurz, dass das online-IT-Magazin"Gawker" erst Hulk Hogan versucht hat über sexuelle Vergehen zu erpressen, ich hab mich in diese Gerichtssache nicht eingelesen, und jetzt eine Kampagne gegen Jake fährt.