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X fails to avoid Australia child safety fine by arguing Twitter doesn’t exist(arstechnica.com)

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TheBlackLounge@lemm.ee
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Transphobe mad about people deadnaming his company

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CaptainBasculin@lemmy.ml
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hello guys i’ve recently changed my name, why should i be responsible for the 400.000$ debt related to my old name? The name doesn’t relate to me anymore.

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Klear@sh.itjust.works
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Did you sign your new name at 45 degrees in red ink?

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ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org
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The social security card says it was issued to “ELON MUSK” but my name is “Elon Musk”. Direct all these supposedly mine tax bills to “ELON MUSK” and leave me alone.

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floofloof@lemmy.ca
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Musk giving off sovereign citizen vibes.

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Agent641@lemmy.world
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He should of written diagonally in red ink on the court documents SMH

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Fedizen@lemmy.world
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aka dumbshit who isn’t punched in the face enough vibes.

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Random_Character_A@lemmy.world
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Is this “gotta try anything instead of submission” thing or just “new level of stupid” thing?

Was there actually some hope for this to work or was this just something the man baby cooked up and his layers just thought “fuck it, I’m getting paid for this and he won’t listen anyway”.

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NocturnalEngineer@lemmy.world
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I don’t get why twitter wouldn’t just comply & implement measures the moment it knew it’s platform was being used to distribute CSAM.

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SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world
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I do. I know why.

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Llamatron@lemmy.world
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The fines are no doubt cheaper than actually doing something about it. Plus if they do something and are even moderately successful then he’d have less of an excuse for doing nothing about Russian disinformation and other bullshit.

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u/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)@lemmy.sdf.org
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Money.
It would cost money.

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Samvega@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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Because they care about money, not harming children. This is why we live in a world where there isn’t enough effort put into keeping children safe by rich people, because they prefer money to chlidren.

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Geobloke@lemm.ee
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Well now we know that Twitter doesn’t care that there csam on their platform. Like couldn’t even do the bare minimum standard of compliance

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FireWire400@lemmy.world
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As long as twitter.com redirects to X, it’s officially still called Twitter, I don’t care what Elmo says

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Prox@lemmy.world
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Wouldn’t the business license say still be for Twitter, with a DBA “X”?

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MisterFrog@lemmy.world
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I’ve had a dig (I have no idea what I’m doing) but in this ASIC registry, seems to show they filed to try and wind up the company, and that was rejected? Again, not a lawyer. (See the “Documents” section)

https://connectonline.asic.gov.au/RegistrySearch/faces/landing/panelSearch.jspx?searchText=647102672&searchType=OrgAndBusNm

Edit to add: And they still have their trademark registered, so it clearly still exists haha how bizarre.

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