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, fraudprevention@icloud.com.
They claim to be representing Felix Juhl of Artefaktum LLC, a cybersecurity company.
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
Interestingly, after almost 24 hours exactly none of the Mastodon discussion has been indexed by Google.
@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/