As we know, two of those cases involved Wikipedia Administrators - the infamous Fram, and the permanently dumb Ritchie. The harassment site Wikipediocracy was intimately involved in both cases, and countless Wikipedia Administrators and even a few current and former Supreme Court members participate there, like it's no big thing to seen to be associating with people like that, who do things like that.This exact outcome perfectly demonstrates why the committee must take extended precautions to protect the privacy of individual who report being the victims of harassment when sending any evidence to the other involved party. Lately (in at least three recent instances), whatever seems to be sent to the individual frequently ends up being posted publicly on-wiki, on another wiki, or on another website. No greater argument highlights the fact that the committee should presume that whatever is sent to another party will become public. We have also clearly seen that when the identity of the individual who made the report becomes public, they are frequently subject to further harassment and hounding (both on and off-wiki). It has been something an increasing number of editors have expressed a concern about when contacting us. Mkdw talk 03:43, 2 October 2019 (UTC)
Another Administrator, Beelebrox, openly solicited on Wikipediocracy for the leaking of sensitive data relating to the Fram case. As far as I can tell, he faced no consequences for it whatsoever. I'm the only critic I know of who has even mentioned that this might be a thing people on Wikipedia should be concerned about.
Unless these "extended precautions" are a flame thrower and a Death Star, I don't think they're going to work.
The problem started when it suddenly stopped being the norm to respond to any Wikipedian who started talking about their rights and freedoms as a Wikipedian, with a reminder that for all intents and purposes, they have none. They have their pre-existing legal rights, and their freedom to leave.
As far as I can tell, the change occurred during Framgate. So maybe it wasn't such a great idea for the Arbitrators to have come out so strongly during it on the side of the people, with their open letters and other nonsense.
They are not a court, they are not dispensing justice. And they are not and never were the leaders of an autonomous self-governing community.
Start banning the people who defy your Orders and agitate for their supposed Rights, particularly those doing so in a venue they believe is outside your jurisdiction, and you might have at least a slim chance of getting this genie back in its bottle.
Show them no mercy.
