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I don't completely agree with the point of Bitcoin Magazine, but the blatant attempt to suppress satire and criticism is deeply troubling.
by samus 3y ago
I don't completely agree with the point of Bitcoin Magazine, but the blatant attempt to suppress satire and criticism is deeply troubling.
- tedunangst 3y agoIt's deeply troubling that this t-shirt is the most original criticism they can come up with.
- ClarityJones 3y agoI appreciate that they used the least original means of criticism that was never-the-less sufficient to agitate the Fed into threatening legal actions. It's easy to agitate a federal agency if you do something novel or extreme. The fact that this was sufficient really highlights how petty the Fed's actions are.
- empath-nirvana 3y agoThis is a routine trademark enforcement case.
- samus 3y agoThat might be the case. However, the point is the motivation of the Fed to pursue this case. Most countries in the West might not nominally apply censure, but copyright, trademark, and libel laws are a complex minefield that the press and anyone politically active must carefully navigate, lest the Powers That Be use it to gleefully sue their opposition and pesky dissenters into oblivion.
- epakai 3y agoTrademarks require enforcement or they can become effectively invalid. Any alternative motivation is speculative, trademark simply REQUIRES this action. I don't think the Fed has any special status in this respect.
- samus 3y agoThey could agree on a compromise where the Fed receives $0.50 for every item sold. Maybe a cease&desist is the usual way negotiation about such a deal is started, but in this case this makes them appear very petty.