“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”

When people in your community, whether it’s #OpenSource or #hamradio, speak up about unethical behavior from wealthy or powerful people, listen to them.

Look at the evidence.

And then, take action.

SOTA, POTA & WWFF are great ways to dip your toes into CW. The exchanges are super simple, nothing more than a signal report and usually a state. Speeds are usually reasonable for new ops. From the spotting pages you already know all the important bits anyway!
The POTA people have created an EXCELLENT doc with some helpful hints for making your foray into CW successful and fun and it applies to any of those OTAs:
https://docs.pota.app/docs/cw_guide.html