
Yes, this is hardly a surprise
> But Peterson told The Register she is aware of a "history of Automattic taking actions regarding organizers similar to this."
Yes, they have been customer hating arseholes for decades. When you do business with certain companies like Broadcom, Oracle, Automattic, Facebook, Twitter, anything the Angry Toddler went near, etc. you have to go in holding your nose and knowing they're out to screw you. Then while you're holding your nose your WordPress installation gets hacked again. :p
I do understand that you are upset that the devil you willingly got in bed with is now acting like a devil again and are speaking up about it because you hope it will change something, but no, Boris will repent and become an erudite, well educated scholar and gentleman before Automattic stop being thugs.
On re-reading, I apologize that the tone is so harsh, but I've seen so many 'Oh no, we crawled into the Pit of Endless Venomous Snakes and there were snakes! And they were venomous! And endless! Nobody could have known! One star!' stories lately. If you're holding a WordPress event, you know what they're like.