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Techrights as 'Regulator' Against Runaway Trains

Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 23, 2025,

updated Dec 23, 2025

Wikipedia says that "[a] runaway train is a type of railroad incident in wwhi try hich unattended rolling stock is accidentally allowed to roll onto the main line, a moving train loses enough braking power to be unable to stop in safety, or a train operates at unsafe speeds due to loss of operator control. If the uncontrolled rolling stock derails or hits another train, it will result in a train wreck."

For a number of years already Techrights has dealt with online bullies. Some got arrested, some vanished due to chronic illness, and some simply burned out and deleted their online accounts. We won't name them. They know who they are. Some are at the EPO; they think they can pretend to be "ill" for a few months, then stage a comeback. That's just wishful thinking. We have plenty of fuel (incriminating material) left "in the tank", we just choose how to use it wisely.

"Runaway trains" can be metaphors for reckless (not careless or responsible) people who openly do illegal drugs, who engage in various illegal activities online, and who try to break into accounts while trying to assert that this is "OK" just "because I am trans". Other examples included people who tried to police our IRC channels (to censor us) and at the end got arrested for raping children. Some of these people are so conceited and delusional that they think it's OK to do this.

"Runaway trains" tend to have truly crazy and disorganised lifestyles. They don't typically last long because without structured lives severe mistakes are made and self-destructive moves are chosen in place (or instead) of common sense.

"Runaway trains" never scared us because we know that they, unlike us, don't think rationally. Remember Jesper Kongstad, who rendered his own home a chinchilla-slaughtering farm? How about Paul Morinville and other patent fanatics? We hardly hear from or about them anymore. █