Part of me agrees with you, they would only frame it as City being enemies of free speech so it would be counter-productive and only serve to feed their delusional self-importance and whistle-blowing fantasies. It would become a weird badge of honour for some genuinely damaged individuals.
However, our laissez faire policy to challenging the media has clearly failed thus far. Perhaps making an example of a few select individuals, hitting them fast and hitting them extremely hard, wouldn’t be the worst thing in terms of halting this groundswell of embittered bile. We have already seen of one bunch of biased frauds in UEFA and the G14. Taking a couple of openly hostile liars to the bankruptcy courts would be a piece of piss in comparison