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@ullah_david @ChiefScientist @propensive There is so much attention on the Scala Censor because they (actually @odersky) have the power to make things right regarding @propensive. Ever since the letter of lies was published, contributors like me have ran away. Good leaders protect their people: careerists burn them.

@ChiefScientist @propensive It bothers me too. However, when it comes to this open letter, Brian Clapper/Travis Brown appear to be the public face/mastermind of it, respectively. But most of the online ire is directed towards the Scala Center. I want to make sure I am frustrated with the right people.

@rolandkuhn @fbrasisil @TomekGodzik I never got any explanation for being banned: coincidentally on the day my book was released. When the ban was revoked (only because of pressure), they issued a vague statement that still made me sound guilty of ... something. Then my name was removed from the sponsor list.

Great questions, Flavio! And as expected, not a single one has been given a useful answer, only deflection like any politician would use. The most telling is that the one answer that has been given is that no investigation is carried out for moderation actions — the result is only “explained” to the victim of the moderation action.

Just a reminder that if you have questions about how Scala moderation works, feel free to reach out to us. While we can't discuss specific moderation actions (those are confidential), we're happy to explain publicly available policies and general processes.

@jdegoes @kitlangton @propensive I know Travis Brown wrote the cancellation letter, and got others to put their name on it, because some of the signatories - ensime contributors, before they turned to evil - told me so. They expected me to join their mob. Everyone went insane, I lost faith in humanity.

Travis Brown was not public about his role in the letters, because even at the time, he was considered toxic by the majority of the Scala community, and his public participation would have severely undermined broader support for the cancellation of @propensive. Few know that he was not just instrumental in grooming Yifan to the point where she was willing to go public with a grossly twisted version of the facts, but that he played a major role in crafting the letter. Knowing that a single letter might be dismissed as the grumblings of a bitter ex-girlfriend, Travis also skilfully persuaded (manipulated?) his girlfriend into lending her name to the cause, using his writing skills to distort what was a benign if dysfunctional relationship into the 'pattern of problematic behaviour' that would be necessary to rally the mob to torches and pitchforks. Though several dipped their fingers into the letters and share in the responsibility (including Y and V), Travis Brown should be considered the main author of both letters, and the main orchestrator of the campaign to cancel @propensive.

My final post on Jon's final post. Either Mr. Pretty is fabricating these recollections and transcripts to a Dostoevskian degree of verisimilitude—which, though possible, is falsifiable and, thus far, has only been corroborated—or his accusers have bent the truth into an unrecognizable blunt-force object, subsequently brandished by the inveterate mob-charmers known as @typelevel and their trusty, subterranean henchperson, Travis Brown (who happened to be dating V, one of the two accusers, at the time; more on this later). § As I've previously written, I found the initial accusations to be oddly insubstantial. Though decorated with the rhetoric of late-stage MeToo, they read more like a litany of breakup grievances—perhaps a tragic instance of post-traumatic, therapy-induced retconning—than anything remotely incriminating, let alone worth mobilizing the cancellation committee over. The Mob is a notoriously unwieldy implement of justice, and even if there were an iota of substance to these claims, its deployment would still have been grossly negligent (e.g., there are numerous documented cases of such actions leading to suicide). Under the actual circumstances, wholly bereft of evidence, it was an act of pure savagery (paging @djspiewak once more, who enjoys sermonizing on the grave responsibility of community leadership—shall we roll out your lectern?) I encourage you to read Jon's posts as well as those of his accusers. I believe you will find the difference in self-consistency and evidence to be staggering. § Understandably, you may lack the time or interest to conduct your own research. You may prefer the heuristic of plurality: "Two Against One." This quantitative lens has certain desirable properties. In particular, 2 > 1 can be settled formally by means of some simple Peano arithmetic, conveniently sidestepping the inherently messy and subjective domain of human relations. You may then turn instead to the heuristic of "Believe Women." This, of course, reduces to that same "Two Against One" method, only this time waged at the level of chromosomes. Furthermore, it is fatally susceptible to paradox: All one must do is procure a Woman with the obverse perspective, and then suddenly we find ourselves ex falso sequitur quodlibetting the bed. To make this concrete, my wife, an independently verified Woman, finds the entire "Believe Women" discourse grotesque and infantilizing. Are Women, she asks, not equally capable of the full and hideous range of possible human expression, including but not limited to deception, perfidy, Machiavellitude, etcetera? I too believe this, but I herein transclude my woman wife's words in case her duplicative X tips the scales for you. Now, given these tempting, time-saving heuristics, the most I can hope to do is lay a breadcrumb of skepticism at your feet and entreat you to pursue it further. You will find this in the form of—God help us—a Twitter screenshot (see attached). Give it a read, and I will provide some context below. § The screenshot features a Twitter conversation involving Jon (the accused), Yifan (the primary accuser), and Travis Brown (the boyfriend of the secondary accuser). This occurred a year and a half after Jon and Yifan's brief assignation and a year and a half before the cancellation event, the open letter. The topic at hand is Travis's ongoing effort to cancel @jdegoes. Yifan, in her letter, portrays Mr. Pretty as the repeated violator of their informal non-communication pact, yet she is seen here confrontationally quote-tweeting Mr. Pretty. What is much worse is the involvement of Mr. Brown. Travis Brown is an infamous, bottom-feeding figure in the Scala community. If you're unfamiliar with his work, do check out his Cancel Culture project: github.com/travisbrown/ca…. You can see that he had already put Jon Pretty on Cancel Culture's README's list of tracked accounts long before the open letter was published (also attached). Lastly, Mr. Brown is one of the architects (if not the architect) and "maintainers" of the Scala Open Letter repository, merging PRs as recently as last month (see the commit history github.com/scala-open-let…—screenshot attached). If this curious connection between Yifan, V, and a scheming, cancellation-happy internet sociopath does not raise one of your eyebrows, then perhaps you suffer from alopecia? My condolences. § I implore you to read Jon's posts in full, and then, once thoroughly anguished and infuriated, to call upon the Scala Center (@scala_lang) to make some/any kind of statement. My only aim here is to restore Jon Pretty's name and standing in the Scala community. Thanks for reading. 🙇‍♂️