There have been many posts on this forum where people discussed governments and banks conspiring to kill bitcoin, ICOs and crypto. Perhaps in this news story, we are witnessing the reality of how this topic plays out in the real world. One interpretation says banks and governments prefer to seize control over bitcoin, ICOs and crypto utilizing charlatans and shills like Craig Wright who an uinformed public might be fooled into believing is the real Satoshi Nakamoto.
Here we have Craig Wright suing Peter McCormack for "defamation" as McCormack said Craig Wright isn't Satoshi on a pocast. In addition Craig Wright is attempting to file a gag order (see: injunction) against McCormack to prevent him from discussing this topic in the future. Gag orders and injunctions are extremely common in europe where they're utilized to essentially strip freedom of speech from citizens.
I don't see this as defamation whatsoever. He's expressing his own opinion.
There is simply not enough evidence to suggest that he is the creator of bitcoin anyways. You're right about people being potentially misled into thinking that Craig Wright is in fact Satoshi, given his media presence.
I think that it's important for everybody to realise bitcoin is not something that depends on the founder of it to run, like a corporation. It is decentralised for this exact reason, there is absolutely no need to know the identity of satoshi, and if there never comes undoubtable proof that someone is indeed satoshi, people shouldn't even care this much.
