After being shipped back from Taiwan and making bail, 3D printing enthusiast Cody Wilson has surrendered control of his project Defense Distributed to Paloma Heindorff, who was previously the project's vice president. Mainstream outlet Conde Nast describes her background before Defense Distributed as having involved activity in poetry and the arts (archived). This leaves the 30 year old Wilson effectively confined while reducing this captors' liability for providing him with three hots and a cot.

The more compliant Linus Torvalds allowed himself to be pushed out of Linux kernel development by the slow trechery of an intersectional feminist daughter that may or may not be his.