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.

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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?

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Gee wizz, I don’t think you understand Capitalism at all. Musk gets the profits and you get the liability.

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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.

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I still don’t understand how the fuck that worked. Why would any company risk doing business with shxitter after that?

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Yes. That’s why you face criminal charges and if you dont moderate

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Time to commit crimes with ā€˜our’ Twitter account

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upload full length movies on there, newer ones preferably. it’s elon’s fault since he owns it all.

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They should totally host a mastodon instance at infowars URL

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I’ve already signed up

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MinfoWars

m.infowars subdomain

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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.

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Alex Jones had no say in what was being sold. The Court seized his assets and sold them to pay the people he owes.

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