Statement on Today's Court Decision
MANCHESTER, England, July 29, 2026 (tuxmachines.org) - In November 2025 a Court ordered the removal of about half a dozen webpages that Rianne had published. Despite Rianne insisting, defending, and filing a counterclaim, as she explained the day that she filed the counterclaim, she ran out of money for lawyers. It is estimated that to successfully defend such a case it costs about half a million British pounds (£500,000) or about $665,327 (US dollars).
This week the Court found that this article about the counterclaim is fine, but it found that the GemText versions of the above-mentioned 2023 pages in question needed to be removed. They had been removed ahead of the hearing regardless.
In November 2025 Rianne asserted that the head judge in charge of media at the High Court acknowledged that she had suffered abuse online - abuse she neither invited nor deserved. The attribution of this abuse was the subject of the trial, not the abuse itself. A month later it seemed abundantly clear the aim was to take down the entire Web site (hundreds of thousands of pages from hundreds of community members), not just a few pages. It was again made clearer several times in 2026. The real aim was to 'kill' the site.
This is a weaponisation of the legal system in the UK via American cat's paws who are funded by companies like Microsoft to suppress the competition.
Lawsuits don't break relationships and communities, they make them stronger.
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