I am pretty skeptical about that. LaughingMan's story didn't exactly paint Loren in a positive light. Now maybe you could argue that's misdirection, but then we are clearly back to speculation.
There are several reasons that it is
likely that Laughingman2070 is Loren Coleman. The first and most obvious one is that Loren Coleman has a huge Harlequin man crush. You'd have to read the early drafts of The Corruption Master plotline that Loren Coleman wanted to inflict on Shadowrun to fully grasp how much of a Harlequin fanboy he is, but there's that. For those of you unfamiliar with old-school Shadowrun books, the character Harlequin used to post under the name "Laughing Man" before Rob took him out of the Shadowtalkers rotation.
But the most important reason is that Laughingman "knows" a number of things that Loren
believes and appears to know things that only Loren could know. For example, there was the attempt by David Stansel-Garner to buy Loren out of the company back before he knew the extent of the financial straits that IMR was in. That was a private discussion. As far as I know, the
only people involved in that discussion were David Stansel-Garner and Loren L. Coleman. For whatever reason, those negotiations collapsed, and whether the pile on the table was fifty thousand or fifty million dollars is something that only those two people could know.
There are a number of other stylistic and informational cues in his presentation, but that's enough really. If it
isn't Loren Coleman, it's someone who gets up to date information
from Loren Coleman. And is fighting the war of words for Loren Coleman in the manner in which he thinks it should be fought. And who is leaving false trails to make us think he is Loren Coleman on top of that.
I think Loren Coleman really believes that David Stansel-Garner is his primary enemy, and that I am working for him. If my presentation of why and how I am
not penetrated him at all, I suspect it was a Phildickian moment for him.
-Username17