You Don't Own "Your" X/Twitter Account
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This came out of the story where the Onion buys InfoWar.
https://www.axios.com/2024/11/26/musk-x-infowars-onion-social-media
X Corp. claims ownership of InfoWar's X/Twitter account. While X/Twitter acknowledges that the users generally own the content posted by the users, X/Twitter claims it owns the X/Twitter accounts themselves.
"X Corp.'s [terms of service] make clear that it owns the X Accounts, as the TOS is explicit that X Corp. merely grants its users a non-exclusive license to use their accounts," the company told a federal judge in Texas.
There's the term "non-exclusive" in there ... probably means anyone can be allowed to use "your" X/Twitter account if X/Twitter allows it.
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I do not have a problem with him reclaiming names of accounts. It’s a free service, and Twitter is not the government. You get what you pay for.
I would have a major problem, though, if he decided to commit fraud and pretend that the account was still owned by the original owner and posted under it.
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I have a problem with the government mandating rules about what can be posted forming the content of technology corporations' platforms. I think the Democrats in particular want to mandate the content they permit. I think the government and these corporations are already working together to an extent. This phenomenon has reached the point in the UK that people are being arrested for posting content the government considers off limits. To be clear, I am not talking about people posting threats or anything similar.
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There are state and federal laws about child pornography. It is a crime to possess it. So it seems it would be a crime to post it.
I'm talking about censorship by way of labeling legitimate opinions on any topic as-- "misinformation" and censoring political speech, for example-- not allowing criticism of the state of Israel under the guise of falsely labeling it as-- "antisemitism."
