Pinned Tweet Ordered by UK Court – Craig Wright Not Satoshi Nakamoto
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> Ayyadurai is notable for his widely disputed claim of being the "inventor of email".[73] His claim is based on an electronic mail software called EMAIL, an implementation of interoffice email system, which he wrote as a 14-year-old student at Livingston High School, New Jersey in 1979.[15][74][note 1] Initial reports that repeated Ayyadurai's assertion—from organizations such as The Washington Post and the Smithsonian Institution—were followed by public retractions.[15][75] These corrections were triggered by objections from historians and ARPANET pioneers who cited the fact the history of email dated back to the early 1970s.[12] Ayyadurai started a campaign in 2011 in which he rebranded himself as the "Inventor of Email"; according to a paper published in Information & Culture, he "provoked a dramatic succession of exaggerated claims, credulous reporters, retractions, and accusations that a cabal of industry insiders and corrupt Wikipedia editors are colluding to hide the truth."[76]
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiva_Ayyadurai#EMAIL_inventio...
Which is great. A good public shaming is probably more of a deterrent than nebulous financial penalties or unlikely jail time. No one wants to be humiliated for their shenanigans.
Full judgement: https://assets.caselaw.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ewhc/ch/2024/...
It then becomes literally impossible for someone to out you- nobody will listen to the guy that says "heh, I cracked the case, Satoshi is Craig Wright!"
It's also interesting that UK courts can compel speech like this. Would the same remedy be available to US courts?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominion_Voting_Systems_v._Fox...
It's not clear to me if this would also extend to a court order requiring someone to publish something, but I think there's going to be some squeamishness as to whether that's a remedy a court can provide. (Obviously, an out-of-court settlement could provide for that).
That's how those weird judges are able to "make" young kids stand on a street corner wearing a "I did a crime" placard.
I wonder what would happen if he do it in other jurisdiction. .. Does it count as a contempt of court?
Some more discussion on:
Self-proclaimed Bitcoin inventor referred to UK prosecutors for alleged perjury
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40975209
Craig Wright's claim of inventing Bitcoin may get him arrested for perjury
There’s nothing quite like seeing an aggressive blowhard bullshitter get a proper telling off.