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.
Good thing I did jackshit with my Twitter account and had it fully deactivated. It was hacked and posted some spam ads that I knew nothing about.
Of course he does. Did you think differently?
Not supporting Musk here, but there is some truth to the claim in the headline.
One major danger we currently have is everyone thinking that social media platform accounts are property. They simply aren’t – at least, not yours. If the company decides to terminate your account, they can do that. It will be supported by the TOS. You do not own it.
You also don’t own data you put on it. Post a bunch of photos to FB? They own them and can do whatever they want with them.
The danger is that these things are so ubiquitous they appear like information utilities, but they are not. They are corporate services wholly owned by their respective corporations. It is something that makes federated systems stand out from the crowd (not that you own an account there either, but there at least is not a single centralized corporate owner).
More people need to be made aware of this.
Elon Musk parody accounts no longer required to advertise themselves as parody, since they really are Elon Musk now.
It’s days like this that I’m just so happy and proud of myself for never doing the whole Twitter thing.
He does though. Read the fine print. You are just allowed to use it. Not really surprising.
The Onion should allow Musk to block the sale of the Twitter handle, then sue Alex Jones for falsely advertising the sale of an account he can’t sell and sue Twitter for infringing on their trademark of the InfoWars brand.
Alex Jones had no say in what was being sold. The Court seized his assets and sold them to pay the people he owes.
It was always this way, on all platforms.
That pic, though: Peak American alpha males.
alpha
Unpredictable behavior, unfit for the general public to interact with.
It’s amazing how many “bro” dudes are riding their dicks.
You mean rich spoiled man-children who are nothing more than insecure adolescent tweens going through puberty and having sexually frustrated tantrums because girls just laugh at them, and their narcissism is so all-consuming that their only emotion is disdain and goal in all the world is more and more self-gratification and the insatiable pursuit of total control of everything, because they know deep down they will never ever be the recipients of genuine respect or admiration.
Yeah that’s what I thought you said. Slight faux pas.
Fake tan. Fake hair.
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?
Yes. That’s why you face criminal charges and if you dont moderate
Gee wizz, I don’t think you understand Capitalism at all. Musk gets the profits and you get the liability.
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.
I still don’t understand how the fuck that worked. Why would any company risk doing business with shxitter after that?
Unrelated but can someone overdose on Ketamine?
It’s practically impossible sadly. Have to take a absurd amount
yes but I think I saw you have to take like 4 grams
Yes, but that means unconsciousness (and later death).
Time to commit crimes with ‘our’ Twitter account
upload full length movies on there, newer ones preferably. it’s elon’s fault since he owns it all.
probably a good tactic
They should totally host a mastodon instance at infowars URL
MinfoWars
m.infowars subdomain
I’ve already signed up
I hadn’t logged into Twitter in years. Just signed in to delete my account. He can have it back.
same, deleted an inactive account.
You think it’s really deleted in the back end? Adorable
…I don’t care.
I left Facebook but I left my account a husk. If the last thing they ever know is that I went to Krispy Kreme and got a pumpkin spice donut in 2017, then that’s cool with me.
I kept it because occasionally a dude needs a $50 TV and it’s the best place to find a used one.
"After eating the donut, the trail goes cold, Mr. Zuckerberg. We just don’t know!*
It’s cute that you think Facebook only knows things about you if you post them on Facebook lol
It’s cute that you think I even have it installed.
Here’s How Facebook Tracks You in 2024 (and how to stop them)
It’s cute that you think no one else has done these things unless you specifically told them about it.
You missed the point, congrats.
No, I don’t. But that’s another data point for them to see people leaving their service.
