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.
They should totally host a mastodon instance at infowars URL
Not mine you faker. I never signed up for any of your crap.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ockHHFfZ3b8&t=11
Sorry. It was my immediate first thought. š
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.
I mean, if someone lets me into their house, points me to a whiteboard with a pen and tells me to write whatever I want so the other people in the house can read itā¦
Do I own the whiteboard? Or the pen? Or have control over any of it?
No. The owner of the house can lock me out and wipe off or change what I wrote at their leisure.
You do have some control, in the form of copyright. Also the analogy doesnāt hold up well since youāre not using their āpenā and they only let you reach inside through the window. And the audience is outside the house.
Except when you enter the home, you accepted the TOS that transfers copyright to the owner of the home.
Nope.
as a user, āyou retain your rights to any Content you submit, post or display on or through the Services. Whatās yours is yours you own your Content (and your photos and videos are part of the Content),ā although you also grant Twitter a license to use the content, which authorizes it āto make your Content available to the rest of the world and to let others do the same.ā Based on this language, other twitter users are also licensed to copy and redistribute your posts by āretweetingā them.
https://copyrightalliance.org/faqs/tweets-protected-copyright/
A better analogy is i hand you a bullhorn and you shout at randos.
Do i own your words, even though itās my bullhorn? No.
No but somebody else can own the creator of what was written on the board. That might be a bit weird in todayās terms if itās a person, but if itās a company that wrote that stuff it can legally become somebody elseās, which is what is happening with Infowars.
Twitter has always allowed a company to own their own account, and even transfer it and be used by multiple people. For example how Bidenās account is used by his staff. But now X starts meddling with this specific case, which is very questionable.
And if youāre going to say that āitās his own accountā; lawyers were saying that his āpersonal brandā is too heavily intertwined with Infowars and that it should be part of the Infowars brand.
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.
