My Mastodon server, cyberplace.social, has received a legal threat in an attempt to have a user's thread deleted. It is styled as a cease and desist.
I have published the email here:
https://github.com/GossiTheDog/Cyberplace/blob/main/LegalThreats/Cease%20and%20Desist%20Order%20-%20Felix%20Juhl
This is the thread they are trying to have removed, you should be careful not to boost or interact with it.
If anybody is wondering, yes, it is real and no it isn't phishing. And yes, they sent it from an Apple customer email address, [email protected].
They claim to be representing Felix Juhl of Artefaktum LLC, a cybersecurity company.
@GossiTheDog I wonder why they cited, of all things, a King County Superior Court civil case here?
The original toots had zero boosts, zero favorites and zero replies before they sent the email — and for some reason wasn’t indexed on Google.
Now it’s on several thousand Fediverse servers, and translated by Google:
https://mastoreader-io.translate.goog/?url=https://mastodon.social/@rotopenguin/112338579606649645&_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en-US&_x_tr_pto=wapp
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Interestingly, after almost 24 hours exactly none of the Mastodon discussion has been indexed by Google.
@GossiTheDog We do not have sourcemaps, and I do not think that they crawl the various RSS feeds we publish (there are a lot of them!). A Google team reached out to us to see how we could improve our indexing so more “real-time" posts are surfaced on search, so there may be some improvements in the coming months if we figure out how to do it properly.
@GossiTheDog I am not sure this works for Twitter nowadays, as they cut off they API / firehose
@GossiTheDog the account might have opted out of search engin indexing:
https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/preferences/#misc
https://fedi.tips/hiding-your-posts-from-search-engines-on-mastodon-and-the-fediverse/
@GossiTheDog @rysiek link to it from your own site(s) to let the indexer know it's there.
I’ve had a request to remove a name from the cease and desist request I put on GitHub now. Apparently nobody wants to be the one who sent it.
I have had another cease and desist email about this, signed by somebody identifying themselves as Felix Juhl.
The email this was attached to:
Dear Sir
please find attachment.
We expect a response by July 5, 2024 2:00 p.m. EDT at the latest,
otherwise we will hand the matter over to the lawyers for further
processing
Best regards
Dr. Thomas Lützenrath
Chief Operating Officer
Artefaktum LLC
https://github.com/GossiTheDog/Cyberplace/blob/main/LegalThreats/IMG_1503.jpeg
