Musk's X is trying to stop The Onion from buying Alex Jones' social media accounts.

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.

  • hypeerror@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    1161·
    16 days ago

    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?

    • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.worldEnglish
      971·
      16 days ago

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

      • hypeerror@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        23·
        16 days ago

        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.

        • oyo@lemm.eeEnglish
          51·
          15 days ago

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