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Clacton manifesto: Reform UK hacking, leaks, raw sewage & 8GB Swiss Archive

2026-08-12T14:00:00+01:00

The end of my campaign in the Clacton-on-Sea by-election is close. The guy who resigned in July admits hitching his wagon to the high priests of social control media and cryptocurrency. If the much-anticipated Bitcoin market implosion were to occur before polling commences on Thursday, Reform UK supporters could very quickly abandon their party. The manifestos published by rival candidates will be vital reading for voters making up their mind at the last minute.

Here is the video about police from Switzerland being used as a weapon against unpaid volunteers to try and destroy evidence about the Debian suicide cluster. This is contrary to UK law on gross negligence manslaughter:

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In July, every household in Clacton received a piece of the truth in their letterbox: the fact that this other engineer died on our wedding day, starting a fifteen year campaign of online harassment against my family.

This is one side of the flyer distributed in letterboxes:

Moving to Clacton-on-Sea

I first came from Australia to the UK in 2002. As a consultant in technology, I have regularly relocated for the needs of clients and employers.

Approximately twenty percent of the people I spoke to in Clacton-on-Sea tell me they expect their new MP to make a sincere effort to relocate and live in Clacton-on-Sea. If the people vote for me to work for them, I will treat my constituents like any other client and I will immediately relocate and base myself where they want me: in the constituency.

This is one of the few campaign promises voters can trust: official statistics tell us ninety-nine percent of Australians live within one hour of a beach. In other words, Clacton-on-Sea is my natural habitat.

Reduction of VAT from twenty percent to ten percent like Australia

Many other countries survive and prosper with a lower rate of consumption tax than the UK.

The guy who resigned frequently talks about his desire to copy the Australian immigration system. Why not copy the Australian VAT system too? It is time to look at all options to reduce the VAT from twenty percent to ten percent. This will boost sales revenues for businesses of all sizes and create new jobs.

Local first: where local needs meet the national agenda

In the second leaflet distributed personally to voters, I've emphasized two local policies.

The first local policy commitment is the construction of a tramway linking Jaywick, Clacton, Holland-on-Sea, Frinton and Walton-on-the-Naze.

The second major policy is the commitment to making Clacton-on-Sea a wellness hub for all ages. Wellness is about dignified living. Closely intertwined with that is my suspicion about attempts to promote the notion of so-called "dignified" dying. This is a slippery slope.

I understand some voters have expressed concerns about people who seek political asylum. Why don't these voters have at least the same outrage for the floaters that wash up on the Clacton region's beaches due to substandard infrastructure for wastewater treatment?

National security: Reform UK hacking, leaks & the 8GB Swiss Archive

As already explained in my submission to the European Commission, countries serious about sovereignty need to have sovereign app stores. Likewise, any apps the public use for essential services like communication and bill payment need to be fully transparent and open source. This is an attitude that is universally agreed upon by experts in data privacy and cybersecurity.

When the former member of parliament resigned, he admitted he couldn't protect his own party from hacking and leaks.

The smell of a huge contradiction is nauseating. In the same resignation speech, he boasted about his seven million followers on social control media.

Each year, IBM produces their well-known Cost of a data breach report. IBM's report typically ranks social engineering attacks as one of the most pervasive and expensive challenges faced by industry and society.

Ironically, the seven million followers the former member for Clacton boasts about can be taken away from him in the blink of an eye. In January 2021, the Silicon Valley overlords demonstrated their immense social engineering powers when they bypassed the courts and simply cut off the social control media accounts of then-US President Donald Trump. They demonstrated their social engineering powers a second time when they unilaterally decided to restore Donald Trump's use of social control media in 2024, allowing him to win another term as president.

In another irony, the former member for Clacton built his reputation as a champion of UK sovereignty while his resignation speech admits both his own personal security and his connection with his supporters are entirely dependent upon and under the control of wealthy foreigners.

The brochure I posted to homes at the beginning of the campaign explains how another engineer died on the same day as our wedding. When we see the possibility his death was part of the Debian suicide cluster, we need to contemplate the fact even the engineers who make this technology are vulnerable to social engineering and exploitation.

Imagine having a memory like Adrian von Bidder's death on your wedding anniversary every year. The victim's wife, Diana von Bidder-Senn became the mayor of Basel. At the same time as her rise in Swiss politics, over $US120,000 was spent to try and have Swiss authorities destroy evidence of the Debian suicide cluster.

Why did they spend all this money if they are not hiding something about Adrian von Bidder's death on our wedding day? Here is some of the kill money identified in public financial disclosures:

In fact, academics and experts agree transparency, including the publication of data breaches and the publication of open source software, is a key ingredient for better cybersecurity. In contradiction of this principle, Switzerland is trying to use their national brand and police violence to hide data breaches and evidence about incompetent officials.

The need for real experts in every parliament was emphasized by the accidental leak from Victoria's parliamentary cult inquiry in the middle of the Clacton election campaign.

Diana von Bidder-Senn, who is both the mayor of Basel and the widow of the victim who died on our wedding day, obtained a PhD in cybersecurity from ETH Zurich, one of Switzerland's top two polytechnic universities. In contradiction of industry best practice, she took down the writing on his blog and refused to release any documents about the death.

As she is using her credentials as an expert in cybersecurity to advance her career in public life, does she needs to explain whether she accessed her late husband's email account and discovered the records of previous deaths in the Debian suicide cluster or whether she failed to detect this influence on her husband?

Cults, leaks, 8GB Swiss Archive & Debian

When I first went to work on a project for UBS in Zurich, the expectations of privacy and security were made clear to me. Here is the reference letter from UBS:

I have always shown one hundred percent commitment to the security and privacy of my clients. Simultaneously, my clients and employers were given a promise of one hundred percent transparency about the open source organisations they rely. Why are my clients and employers banned from reading about the social engineering attacks that have compromised the integrity of the open source software ecosystem in recent years?

Despite my total respect for the privacy of my clients in the financial services sector, racist Swiss people have shown nothing but contempt for the privacy of my own family.

People can only wonder what is included in the 8GB Swiss Archive I've offered to table in the British parliament if the people of Clacton-on-Sea choose to elect me on 13 August 2026.

Google Artificial Intelligence falsified report about 8GB Swiss Archive

I've never made any public statement about the contents of the 8GB Swiss Archive or how it has been obtained.

Google's AI claims to know what is in the 8GB Swiss Archive, despite the fact Google has no way to know what is inside until after I publish it.

Remember, one of the key developers of Google's artificial intelligence, the University of Oxford's Google Professor of Computer Science, is actually one of my former classmates from the University of Melbourne. Maybe we can ask him why Google AI fabricates answers to questions it doesn't know anything about.

Good cybersecurity requires people to treat each other with mutual respect, even in situations where we may be competitors in politics and in business. By indulging the most vile and immature racist tendencies at a time when I lost two family members, these people who pretend to be professionals in computing and in the legal profession are only shooting themselves in the foot.

While I've said nothing to hint at the origins and content of the 8GB Swiss Archive, it is not hard to see a pattern: each major leak to come out of Switzerland has been more influential than the last. Using jealous lawyers in their silly wigs and silly robes to denounce the families of the foreign professionals employed to work on cybersecurity is sheer stupidity.

People are already wondering if the resignation of the deputy CEO of the Swiss financial regulator was precipitated by my analysis of her incredible incompetence. Whether people vote for me or not on 13 August, who will be next to resign over this scandal?

My videos

Mr Pocock is the only candidate with the breadth and depth of experience to take on the challenges of social control media:

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Mr Pocock is rebuilding Clacton's neglected sister-city relationship with Valence in France:

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Mr Pocock has made multiple appearances at United Nations forums in Geneva, Switzerland:

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Mr Pocock is concerned about the time wasting and financial impact that fake reviews are having on small businesses, especially in the tourism and hospitality sectors:

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Reform admit they have no control over their own cybersecurity. Mr Pocock is the only candidate ready for the war of tomorrow. (Video collage from Victoria's Cult inquiry, incumbent MP's resignation and Mr Pocock's work at the UN level).

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Please share my campaign for election in Clacton-on-sea if your phone is working where you are right now.

Nigel Farage crisis: Taylor Swift & Jeffrey Epstein both shunned cryptocurrency bosses

2026-08-10T09:00:00+01:00

Even if Nigel Farage, who resigned on 7 July 2026 did not technically break rules about foreign money in the politics of the UK, there remains a big question about his competence in accepting money from the cryptocurrency industry. Some people feel that Bitcoin and other forms of cryptocurrency are an elaborate, high-tech ponzi scheme that runs across the global Internet, twenty four hours per day, seven days per week, until it it reaches the point where they run out of new victims. When new victims stop putting money into the system, the people who are already part of it will find they can't get their money back. The whole thing will come crashing down like a house of cards.

The collapse of the Bitcoin could have a knock-on effect on the Reform UK party. The party grew very quickly to become the biggest in the UK. The type of person who joins Reform UK is the type of person who will quit just as quickly if the party leader becomes embroiled in the imminent cryptocurrency industry reckoning.

Remember, pop superstar Taylor Swift was offered $100 million to endorse a cryptocurrency company. She refused to accept the money.

Jeffrey Epstein, who achieved notoriety for the exploitation of women and children, expressed the same concerns as Taylor Swift. He didn't want to be too close to the cryptocurrency industry because it might undermine high-level relationships he cultivated in the Establishment.

Ordinary mums and dads in the UK and other countries have been using cryptocurrency to try and save the deposit for their first home purchase. This is the very type of person Reform UK claims to be trying to help. When the day comes that all these people suddenly lose their money in the blink of an eye, some of them will come knocking on Nigel Farage's front door and asking him for a share of the five million pounds he ferreted out of the pyramid scheme before the upcoming collapse.

Nigel Farage told us he needed the money for security. Remember the former president of France, François Hollande, making secret visits to the home of a popular actress? He disguised himself in a motorcycle helmet and rode around Paris on the back of a scooter undetected for years. Ten years after the scandal, François Hollande auctioned the scooter and raised EUR 25,420, more than the original price.

George Clooney is also known for making incognito sorties in the countryside on a motorbike.

DebConf6 fight denied by Google artificial intelligence

2026-08-09T19:30:00+01:00

Asking Google's artificial intelligence about forbidden topics produces some interesting results.

Here I've taken a screenshot and copy and pasted the results of a search for the notorious DebConf6 fight. Some people simply call it the "DebConf fight".

Google has been a sponsor of DebConf for a number of years. Some of the conference participants are employees of Google. Just as religious orders have habitually covered up cases of institutional abuse by their clerics, we now see artificial intelligence covering up cases of abuse by the men who are part of The Establishment in Silicon Valley.

If you are referring to a physical altercation or "fight" at DebConf 6 (the annual Debian developer conference held in Oaxtepec, Mexico, in 2006), there is no major historical record or notable incident of a real physical fight that took place at the event. DebConf is generally known as a cooperative technical conference for open-source contributors.

However, if you meant a combat sports event, you might be thinking of a "Dirty Boxing 6" or similar fight card, or perhaps confusing the software developer conference name with a different event.

If you meant a specific discussion, debate, or online argument related to DebConf 6 or something else entirely, please share more details so I can find the right information for you.

Read more about my work with artificial intelligence a.k.a. human stupidity.

Clacton by-election bias favoritism for Nigel Farage and Count Binface

2026-08-09T16:30:00+01:00

During my campaign for the Clacton-on-Sea by-election, I've had numerous discussions with local residents and rival candidates concerned about the huge media bias in favor of the incumbent candidate and one of the novelty candidates, Count Binface.

Immediately after the incumbent MP resigned, numerous news reports appeared telling residents to make a tactical vote for the novelty candidate. Local people feel his tactical vote is not their own decision, it feels like other people deciding how Clacton should vote.

People subsequently exposed the fact the novelty candidate has pre-existing links to the BBC. His management agency's web site tells us:

He [Jon Harvey / Binface] has created several popular shows for BBC Radio 4, including panel game The Ultimate Choice, starring Steph McGovern, and political sitcom Lobby Land

In the local newspaper, the Clacton Gazette, the front page is fully dedicated to an advertising feature for the the incumbent candidate.

Looking at the newsletter for the local Catholic church, Our Lady of Light, there is a notice about the euthanasia vote in Westminster. The newsletter suggests the the incumbent candidate is still "our MP" and parishioners are asked to contact him. The email address in the newsletter should have been disabled when he resigned in July. It would only be reactivated if people do not choose one of the other candidates.

The correct thing for the parish to do is to provide a list of every candidate who supports the Catholic teaching on euthanasia and encourage every member of the parish to go out and vote on Thursday, 13 August 2026.

Other candidates can contact Fr Patrick and Fr Peter and ask to have their support for the church's position included in the newsletter, if in fact they have a policy on the issue.

Ironically, the parish had been waiting seven years for missionaries from the Legion of Mary to commence a doorknocking program in the parish. The missionaries arrived in the same week that a record number of 34 would-be-politicians arrived and began their own doorknocking campaigns to try and seize Farage's seat. Therefore, the church itself has also been a victim of this rogue by-election that is being conducted while many people are on holiday.

People who want to volunteer with the group are invited to attend their weekly meeting or contact their parish priest.

Don't forget the distorted search results from Google. They are currently showing people a mixed bag of links to random articles and photos unrelated to the current campaign. When you look at the screenshots from previous elections, you can't help feeling that misfits who work for Google have deliberately tweaked the search results to undermine my campaign and the process of democracy:

From 2024:

Google bias in 2026 when people search "daniel pocock clacton". What are the men at Google trying to suggest by including search results in Arabic and placing it further down the page than other results that have no obvious connection to Clacton-on-Sea whatsoever?

Forty three percent of people did not vote at all in the last election in the district of Clacton-on-Sea. If people do want to change the results and overcome all the bias, it is vital to print copies of my flyers, speak to your friends and neighbours and go down to the polling station together to

Vote POCOCK, Daniel [X] (address in Australia!) on Thursday, 13 August 2026

Please watch my videos, share and support my campaign for the Clacton-on-Sea by-election,

Clacton mobile phone network dead spots, not-spots and black spots

2026-08-09T15:30:00+01:00

In his resignation speech, the the former MP for Clacton-on-sea boasts about his seven million followers on social control media. I couldn't help wondering how these people are using their mobile phones at all in the parts of Clacton where the network quality is worse than remote parts of the alps.

The incumbent often boasts about preserving the imperial units of measure. In the local pubs, the beers are measured in pints and the mobile network quality is measured in the pre-historic 'E' for EDGE, that is, the technology we used before everybody else got 3G, 4G and 5G.

Hardware and software for communications networks are a fundamental part of my practice as a software engineer. This particular issue is one that I will fully dedicate myself to resolving if the people of Clacton-on-sea support my campaign for election in Clacton-on-sea.

I passed the full theory exam for my amateur radio license when I was fourteen years old. I would be disappointed if I couldn't fix this issue for the voters of Clacton.

Please share my campaign for election in Clacton-on-sea if your phone is working where you are right now.

Clacton-Jaywick tramway revival

2026-08-09T15:00:00+01:00

As part of my campaign for the Clacton-on-Sea by-election, I'm committed to demanding the return of tramways to Clacton-on-Sea.

Historically, there was a miniature railway on the Clacton pier and another miniature railway linking Clacton to Jaywick.

Vote [X] POCOCK, Daniel for a tramway

Earlier this month, the UK Government announced the elimination of red tape for small transport projects up to £500 million in value. This is a perfect opportunity for Clacton to get a tramway again.

In practice, the private sector can be invited to co-fund the project by constructing a multi-storey park-and-ride facility, shopping centers and multi-storey housing at each tram stop / station along the route.

Modern trams have low floors suitable for people who have wheelchairs, walking sticks, shopping carts or babies in prams. The tram stops are built so that people can enter and exit the tram without any step.

Tramways make a significant contribution to the prestige of the districts where they are built.

A similar service is incredibly popular in Melbourne, Australia. Tram route 96 takes people to the famous St Kilda Beach and the Luna Park theme park.

The full network would begin at the Walton-on-the-Naze railway station, continue to the Clacton railway station, pass through the Clacton town square and then continue to Jaywick.

I asked artificial intelligence to suggest a route for the tramway:

Draw the route for a tramway from Walton-on-the-Naze railway station to the former Jaywick Sands railway station passing key landmarks including the Clacton-on-Sea railway station and the Clacton town square.

Here is the response:

To connect these points along the Essex coastline, a scenic and practical tramway route runs south-west from Walton-on-the-Naze, travels through the heart of Clacton-on-Sea, and terminates at the historic site of the Jaywick Sands railway station.

Proposed Tramway Route Alignment

Walton-on-the-Naze Station to Frinton-on-Sea: Starting at the Walton-on-the-Naze railway station terminal, the tracks follow the B1032 (Walton Road/Frinton Road) heading southwest into neighboring Frinton-on-Sea.

Coastal Highway to Holland-on-Sea: The tramway transitions onto the scenic B1032 coastal corridor (Main Road and Frinton Road), passing through Great Holland and entering Holland-on-Sea via Kings Avenue and Ipswich Road.

Clacton-on-Sea Town Center Core: The line heads directly down Marine Parade East to interface with the seafront. It then cuts inland up Pier Avenue to stop directly at Clacton town square, providing central retail access.

Clacton-on-Sea Railway Station Link: From the town square, the route proceeds a short distance north along Pier Avenue and Station Road to create a major multi-modal transit interchange directly outside the Clacton-on-Sea railway station.

Westward to Jaywick Sands: Leaving Clacton station, the tramway heads west along Cleanway Close and out via the B1027 (St. John's Road) or West Road. It turns south down Jaywick Lane, moving past the Golf Green area to reach the coast.

Jaywick Sands Terminus: The final stretch tracks down Crossways and onto the historic sea-wall alignment along Meadow Way, terminating exactly at the beachside site of the former 1930s Jaywick Sands miniature railway terminus.

Read more about my campaign for the Clacton-on-Sea by-election.

Steve Panozzo, Pothole Whisperer from Australia invited to Clacton

2026-08-09T13:30:00+01:00

Steve Panozzo has gained fame in Australia for his voluntary services as a Pothole Whisperer. Armed with tubes of paint and a lot of guts, he has regularly been spotted risking his life to warn other motorists about super-size potholes. A recent report on ABC news suggested there are over 250,000 potholes in the State of Victoria.

Road safety in regional areas of the UK has become a hot issue for the public. As part of my campaign for the Clacton by-election, I'm inviting the Pothole Whisperer to compare roads in Essex and the east of England to the roads in rural Victoria.

The former member for Clacton admits using his position to recruit over seven million followers on social control media while people complain he does nothing for basic services like roads.

I've made a donation of $250 to Steve Panozzo's crowdfunding campaign. GoFundMe told me the donation helped him achieve his goal of $3,500 and then a few minutes later GoFundMe changed the goal to $4,000. Are the perils of crowdfunding web sites on par with potholes?

The sum of $3,500 raised by Steve Panozzo is trivial compared to the donation of £5 million that a foreign cryptocurrency billionaire made to the former MP for Clacton-on-Sea.

Watch my videos and read more about the campaign for Global Clacton.

Burnham-Clacton Pier mile run challenge, Nigel Farage, Count Binface & the rest

2026-08-07T19:30:00+01:00

In earlier blog posts about my nomination in the Clacton by-election, I suggested that running for office should involve some real running.

The incumbent candidate presents himself as a champion of the imperial units of measure and the contest to be the first person to run one mile under four minutes was a legendary grudge match between and Englishman and an Australian.

In honour of the effort exerted by Roger Bannister and John Landy, I sat comfortably at my desk looking at the screen and trying to work out the best route to run a mile finishing at the world famous Clacton Pier.

What I found came as a shock: the mile starts at Burnham Court, aptly named for the new Prime Minister of the UK, Andy Burnham.

I put it to the other candidates and the media and we'll see whether anybody wants to give it a go.

Platform, Policy & Campaign Announcements

More statements will be added here as the campaign progresses. Please check here for the most up-to-date platform and announcements.

Tolerance & inclusion in Clacton: every vote counts

2026-08-07T10:30:00+01:00

According to one recent poll, up to seventy percent of Clacton residents said they will vote for the incumbent member of parliament, despite the fact we don't fully understand the reason for his resignation. For those who don't support him and for those who feel intimidated or marginalised, for people of colour, for people of non-Christian faiths, it feels like there is no point going to vote at all on 13 August.

In fact, as this is a by-election, there is far more scrutiny on this election than there was during the national election in 2024. The whole country, Europe and the rest of the world is watching Clacton-on-Sea today. Even in Australia there are news reports about the election.

Even if that guy wins again, people will look very closely at how many citizens vote for some other candidate. In 2024, he received forty-six percent of the vote. Even if he wins this time, if he was to get less votes than 2024, this would be a big boost for everybody who feels like they are being trampled on right now.

People who want to vote for tolerance and inclusion can look at my history back as far as 1997 and see that I am somebody they can trust.

In the late 1990s, my father and I lived in Coburg, one of the most multicultural regions of Australia. We were barely two hundred meters from Australia's first Islamic school where the controversial Randa Abdel-Fattah was educated.

In 1997, when I created a web site for native title rights in Australia, I became the first victim of a far-right doxing attack in Australia. Their rant, which is still visible online today, accuses me of helping obtain government funds for ethnic communities:

Now CO.AS.IT is not for other Australians let me remind you.... just Australians with Italian lineage... but it gets better just hold your horses there...

Quote from CO.AS.IT pages: "1968: First subsidy from the Australian Government, (Grant-in-Aid), Immigration Dept. First after-hours Italian classes at St. George's Primary School, Carlton." Sounds harmless enough, but of course since then the hand has been outstretched and money has just fallen into this multicultural organisation's lap like snowflakes on the snowfields in winter.....

and so it would have to have for here's another quote: "(CO.AS.IT owns) A modern library service, access to the largest Italian language CD-ROM Library in Australia, a State-of-the-Art Multimedia Centre with a television studio, a theatrette and a Language Laboratory with video conferencing facilities are an integral part of the Resource Centre." - No guessing who paid for all of that...

In 2013, I resigned from the Australian Labor Party (ALP) citing my concerns about the abuse of migrants. My resignation was leaked to the political news web site Crikey and they published it in full.

In 2018, I defended the honour of cats of colour, our two black cats, in a Swiss tribunal in Zurich. The far right Swiss landlord spread fake news about a smell from black cats. I recorded the trial and published sections of it so people can hear me defending the black cats.

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The Zurich case was resolved with a cash settlement of CHF 10,000, equivalent to EUR 10,500 or USD 10,000 for our black cats:

In 2022, I established the Nazi.compare web site to look at people and organisations who are going down the slippery slope of Hitler. The Berlin police wrote to me and advised they will not prosecute me for making tactical use of the word Nazi when appropriate to do so:

Notice the prosecutor has the name Herzog, like the Israeli president.

At the hustings event on 6 August 2026, when another candidate insisted only people with English, Scottish, Welsh or Irish ancestors can be British, I rose to speak about tolerance and inclusion, pointing out Prince Philip was not born in the UK.

At one point in my political undertakings, I even came across the asylum seeker who wants my job. Many people express fear about an asylum seeker taking their job. I went out of my way to help them. Their asylum claim was successful and they successfully built a new life and career for themselves.

For thirty years I have demonstrated a loud and consistent approach to tolerance and inclusion in society, wherever I live.

Voting for Daniel Pocock in Clacton is a vote for tolerance and inclusion.

Even if I don't win, every vote for Daniel Pocock in Clacton is counted and helps prove that people who believe in an inclusive Brtain exist in Clacton.

Given the incumbent candidate has millions of pounds to spend, I am not spending money on advertising. I rely on people who support tolerance and inclusion to spread my leaflets and web site to their friends and neibhbours by word-of-mouth. Every vote counts.

Platform, Policy & Campaign Announcements

More statements will be added here as the campaign progresses. Please check here for the most up-to-date platform and announcements.

The Establishment, Oxford, Google & Debian artificial intelligence conspiracies

2026-08-05T22:30:00+01:00

On Tuesday, I reached out to other members of the free software community in the UK to join the discussion about the Clacton by-election. Most candidates and journalists are being quite pragmatic about how the people are likely to vote next week, nonetheless, the election process and my personal candidacy provides an opportunity to get some media attention on those aspects of the software freedom cause that are critical for society at large.

Before getting involved, some people have started looking at the history of the Debianism feuds and asked what made some of these people develop such an insane obsession with my family in the first place? Is it only about the death of Adrian von Bidder on our wedding day or are there other dark forces at work?

In 1999, during the third year of my undergraduate degree, students were asked to work in groups of five on a team project. Our group were perceived to be the top guns of the computer science department and we were asked to work on an artificial intelligence project. The supervisor was the head of the department at that time and a highly respected expert on the artificial intelligence of that era.

Peter Eckersley was one of our classmates of that era, he subsequently had a big role in artificial intelligence but he was not one of the five students in that particular project group.

Out of the five students working on the project, one of them never really left university. He was one of the early people to join DeepMind in the UK.

The Debianists are currently having one of their endless debates about the role of LLM in creating Debian packages. Looking at the profile of my former classmate:

From 2014 to 2021 I founded and lead the Natural Language research group at DeepMind London.

In other words, he joined DeepMind at the same time it was acquired by Google. The stuff that Debianists are arguing about was invented by my former classmate. Google and their misfits have banned the community from reading anything I might have to say about the subject.

Later in 2014, St Hugh's College published a lengthy statement about the extent of the Google money flooding the institution.

the University will receive a significant seven figure contribution from Google to be split between the two departments

In 2017, the Fellowship elected me as their representative to the FSFE misfits in Berlin.

In 2018, Peter Eckersley left his role at the EFF to join the Partnership on AI, which is funded by big business interests like Google.

In 2020, my former project team-mate was promoted from being an Associate Professor and given the title Google Professor of Computer Science at Oxford. Does that mean everybody who ever met him, including me, is now arguably part of the Establishment?

Given that Google pays so much money to have the name of their company affiliated with Oxford and these Oxford titles for their own staff, how could they possibly tolerate anybody else from the same peer group in Australia making alternative comments on the ethics of their business practices?

It looks like they may have also been unable to get Peter Eckersley to endorse their brazen wrongdoing. He left the Partnership on AI in 2020 without any public comment.

The same year, we saw Google turning their fangs on the co-chairs of their own ethics department. First they attacked Timnit Gebru and then they attacked Margaret Mitchell. At exactly the same time, my family and I were subject to increasingly hysterical character attacks from misfits and other underlings.

In hindsight, people see that none of us had done anything wrong whatsoever. Is it just coincidence that all the people making critical commentary about ethics were attacked at almost the same time?

This was all about some companies with extraordinary amounts of money and complicit underlings being able to throw their weight around and humiliate independent professionals who might have the stature to contradict the "official" experts endorsed by the company itself.

Looking at the archives of the Debian-project mailing list, we can see huge threads discussing the role of artificial intelligence and LLMs. What is the point of spending all that time on those discussions if the most interesting commentary is censored? People just waste their time going around in circles. Maybe it is Debian's death spiral.

Please watch my crowdfunding video to learn more about the lawsuit in US federal court.

Read more about my research into groups that evolve into cults.