> I still can't tell what their plan was. Or what point they were trying to make. Or how they expected to handle the legal challenge.

I like the idea one of the Dreamwidth people threw up: it was probably intentionally aiming to bait a court case:

https://twitter.com/rahaeli/status/1244257620548038656

(Thanks to 'Apocryphon for posting it originally on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22734145 )

This doesn't necessarily seem out of line with something Brewster et al. would do, and it is the simplest explanation, so I tend to be on the side of it.