Does it feel like your X account belongs to you and you can do whatever you want with it? Thatâs not true, according to a new court filing from the social media company formerly known as Twitter. Itâs an argument that X is making in order to throw a wrench in The Onionâs recent purchase of InfoWars, the conspiracy theory media company run by Alex Jones. And itâs a great reminder that you donât actually own what you think you own in the digital age.
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 itâŚ
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 doesnât hold up well since youâre not using their âpenâ 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, âyou retain your rights to any Content you submit, post or display on or through the Services. Whatâs yours is yours you own your Content (and your photos and videos are part of the Content),â although you also grant Twitter a license to use the content, which authorizes it âto make your Content available to the rest of the world and to let others do the same.â Based on this language, other twitter users are also licensed to copy and redistribute your posts by âretweetingâ 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 itâs 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 todayâs terms if itâs a person, but if itâs a company that wrote that stuff it can legally become somebody elseâs, 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 Bidenâs account is used by his staff. But now X starts meddling with this specific case, which is very questionable.
And if youâre going to say that âitâs his own accountâ; lawyers were saying that his âpersonal brandâ is too heavily intertwined with Infowars and that it should be part of the Infowars brand.
He does. Same with any other platform you do not âownâ 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.
I donât know why youâre 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.
That pic, though: Peak American alpha males.
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 thatâs what I thought you said. Slight faux pas.
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. đ
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 canât sell and sue Twitter for infringing on their trademark of the InfoWars brand.
