Russian State forces took our platform for a ride. And you’re all arguing about free speech, this is about security of 43% of the web, not democratised publishing.

Think for a moment about what happens TO ALL OF US when the reputation of WordPress’s security gets called into question, again.

Bad guys, used our platform to do bad things. This is not ok. It cannot happen again. We need to stop being naïve. We need to ensure this doesn’t happen again.