Trump legal goons threaten Wikipedia https://www.theverge.com/news/656720/ed-martin-dc-attorney-wikipedia-nonprofit-threatIt's a bullshit case, but bullshit cases can do a lot of damage these days

[cwebber@social.coop]

Trump legal goons threaten Wikipedia https://www.theverge.com/news/656720/ed-martin-dc-attorney-wikipedia-nonprofit-threat

It's a bullshit case, but bullshit cases can do a lot of damage these days.

I've been expecting that we'd see attacks on Wikipedia and Bluesky this year from Trump and co, since those seem the "big targets" to go after.

[cwebber@social.coop]

This may sound like I'm snarking on Bluesky again with this one; I'm not (and I certainly wouldn't snark on Wikipedia). I hope I am wrong about this, it's really that most of the rest of traditional media and the old social media companies have been captured.

[cwebber@social.coop]

Simultaneously, I believe:

- If the Trump administration goes after Bluesky, this is a case where we clearly side with Bluesky. It doesn't help anyone to be under attack like that.
- It's also a motivating reason to make Bluesky not depend on one corporation sooner than later, and encourage such designs generally, wherever possible.

[cwebber@social.coop]

well they haven't pulled out the lawyers yet but clearly they're setting their eyes on Bluesky so I think I wasn't wrong here

[cwebber@social.coop]

the "speech vs reach" motto is gonna be interesting to watch shake out

[cwebber@social.coop]

Damn these posts are quite a thing to go back to

[cwebber@social.coop]

If you didn't see, here's new context which makes this thread more interesting https://bsky.app/profile/esqueer.net/post/3lyyqtzb7ns2m

> Clay Higgins sent a letter to Bluesky and other social media sites threatening investigations if they don't censor speech critical of Charlie Kirk.