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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.
That pic, though: Peak American alpha males.
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.
It was always this way, on all platforms.
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.
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).
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 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.
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
I hadn't logged into Twitter in years. Just signed in to delete my account. He can have it back.
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!*
You missed the point, congrats.
No, I don't. But that's another data point for them to see people leaving their service.
same, deleted an inactive account.
They should totally host a mastodon instance at infowars URL
I've already signed up
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 it...
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.
A better analogy is i hand you a bullhorn and you shout at randos.
Do i own your words, even though it's my bullhorn? No.
Depends, actually.
If you lend it to me privately, no. If you hand it to me on a stage, kinda yes.
You do have some control, in the form of copyright. Also the analogy doesn’t hold up well since you’re not using their “pen” and they only let you reach inside through the window. And the audience is outside the house.
And to continue that analogy- Twitter didn't assign the name, the user created it so they hold copyright on the name.
Not mine you faker. I never signed up for any of your crap.
He does. Same with any other platform you do not “own” your account. You have credentials to login to an account you created.
This should not be news to anyone. This applies to all social media, all entertainment, and every other account you use online.
Which is why it's really important to have some trust /reputation if using these services.
Why anyone would use a service run by a fascist entitled madman who literally represents the very worst version of humanity is beyond me and they deserve whatever they get.
I don't know why you're getting downvoted, you are correct.
The platform owns the platform.
You have given the platform permission to use anything on the platform however they want.
They own the content you put on the platform.
They own the content you put on the platform.
This will depend on the terms of service agreement. Some of them try to get away with this, while others just give themselves an irrevocable license to use content you publish on their platform.