Mullenweg's Automattic acts to take control of WordCamps from local organizers (twitter.com)

Mullenweg’s for profit company @automattic now appears to be acting to further exert control the open source community he helped found. Felipe Santos an Automattic employee has demanded that @wordcampsyd delete tweets related to @wpengine being removed as a sponsor and threatened to remove the organizing team. Then a follow up demanding local WordCamp organizers turn off MFA and turn over credentials for their social media accounts.