Does it feel like your X account belongs to you and you can do whatever you want with it? That’s not true, according to a new court filing from the social media company formerly known as Twitter. It’s an argument that X is making in order to throw a wrench in The Onion’s recent purchase of InfoWars, the conspiracy theory media company run by Alex Jones. And it’s a great reminder that you don’t actually own what you think you own in the digital age.
They should totally host a mastodon instance at infowars URL
hypeerror@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
So if X-itter accounts were to threaten persons or places that were in the interest of the state to protect that responsibility lies on Musk?
Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Gee wizz, I don’t think you understand Capitalism at all. Musk gets the profits and you get the liability.
hypeerror@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
If only he were also trying to sue advertisers that no longer want to do business with him. It would be the perfect storm of what is good comes to me and what is bad is yours.
jagged_circle@feddit.nl 6 days ago
Yes. That’s why you face criminal charges and if you dont moderate