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Why the Microsoft People Who Started SLAPPs Against Techrights Could Very Well be Sent Back to Prison

Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 02, 2025,

updated Jul 02, 2025

The SLAPPs against us started shortly after we had published the article "A Story of Plagiarism and Likely Securities Fraud". Nat Friedman, Microsoft GitHub’s CEO at the time, quickly left his job after that (the article was about him) and then, one week later, we published "Nat Friedman, as GitHub CEO, Had a Plan of Defrauding Microsoft Shareholders".

Matthew Garrett, only one day later, started sending us threats (he had abused us before that too [1, 2]) and six days later Balabhadra Alex Graveley got arrested. In hindsight, a lot of those things are connected in a lot of ways. The two publications that started the SLAPPs in 2021 were further reinforced over time. We had struck a nerve. Soon afterwards Miguel de Icaza fell on his sword as well. He was connected to it.

White-collar crime is also a crime. Holding people accountable can take time, but it is doable, even within the British court system.

Microsoft has long established itself on top of serious crime. So this would hardly be out of the ordinary. █

Related:

• Nat Friedman Had Left Microsoft GitHub Exactly One Week Before Matthew Garrett Sent His First SLAPP (Which Was an Empty Threat, He Was Abusing the Legal System of Another Continent to Terrorise Critics Who Had Just Unearthed Major Microsoft Scandals)

• Why Techrights Cannot be Vilified (and Instead It Gets SLAPPed Repeatedly by Microsoft People)

• 10-Step Strategy to Get BRETT WILSON LLP ("Gun for Hire"), Microsoft's Serial Strangler, and the Serial Defamer to Compensate Techrights and Tux Machines for Years of SLAPPs and Abusive Litigation