Does it feel like your X account belongs to you and you can do whatever you want with it? Thatās not true, according to a new court filing from the social media company formerly known as Twitter. Itās an argument that X is making in order to throw a wrench in The Onionās recent purchase of InfoWars, the conspiracy theory media company run by Alex Jones. And itās a great reminder that you donāt actually own what you think you own in the digital age.
Elon Musk parody accounts no longer required to advertise themselves as parody, since they really are Elon Musk now.
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 canāt sell and sue Twitter for infringing on their trademark of the InfoWars brand.
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 arenāt ā 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 donāt 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.
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?
Gee wizz, I donāt 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.
Time to commit crimes with āourā Twitter account
upload full length movies on there, newer ones preferably. itās elonās fault since he owns it all.
