Ah, this segues well into the email I was just drafting: I have to say that I was surprised to see the contents of what appears to be an internal staff email being brought up both on Wikipediocracy and here by a non-staff member. Wil, can you clarify if you were copied on the email, and if not, how you gained access to it? You've repeatedly emphasized that you are not affiliated with/do not influence/are completely separate from the WMF, and even that you and Lila are not even discussing Wikimedia-related matters with one another at home, so I'm sure you can understand the confusion.
Yours, Molly (GorillaWarfare)
Of course. While I was talking to you and others on IRC, Lila came over and asked me to stop. She usually doesn't do that under any circumstances, because she respects my right to say what I want where I want. She replied "a WMF employee emailed me that there are safety concerns, and safety of my employees is a matter that I can't compromise on." She didn't say who wrote her or what their specific concerns were, but I'm not about to cause anyone concern over their safety personally + Lila felt she was responsible for the employee's well being in this case. I did find it somewhat annoying, since it certainly wasn't anything that I said there that would cause safety concerns and no one msg'd me about it directly. I just asked why badmachine was kicked and about the rather mean manner under which he was kicked. But I told you guys why I was leaving and left. FWIW, I don't plan on coming back anytime soon.
This was the first time that Lila told me anything about internal matters, and it was limited to exactly what I wrote above. Frankly, I don't want to know about WMF's affairs, and I'm taking action to avoid knowing anything more for the foreseeable future.
,Wil