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This is a routine trademark enforcement case.

• samus 3y ago
  That 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 ago
    Trademarks 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 ago
      They 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.