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evacideOf course Elon swiped the @X account out from under the person who'd had it previously. There was only one way this was ever going to play out.
Does the owner of the account have any recourse? I'm pretty sure that the answer is NOPE.
Emelia 👸🏻@evacide that is, that account on Twitter, not on hachyderm, right?
@thisismissem Yes. I was concerned that the way I'd written the tweet would clutter up the mentions of the person with that account on my instance, but that account is not active.
@evacide you're crossposting from twitter to hachyderm?
Dave Id
Tea time.@evacide @X The same guy suspending and deleting accounts for vain, petty reasons - such as using non-offensive, supposedly "woke" words from the dictionary - is the one who wants to make himself the indispensable, ubiquitous middleman on all financial transactions, while dabbling in Chinese-style financial and reputation management.
It's akin to wanting to monopolize the web browser market, while deciding for himself who can and cannot access the WWW.
Joe Beehammer (🐝 🔨)@evacide @X@hachyde this kind of thing is why no brands should stay on not-twitter. Your handle and therefore your brand identity are not safe.
Rufus J. Cooter@evacide @X Waaaayyyy back when, I remember how the 1st time I heard about identity theft, it was the cautionary tale of this guy who was (I think?) @[email protected], who got his @q swiped, and also his gmail & facebook IIRC, and the scammers wanted +$1M in ransom to give them back?
And I was like, the fuck is gonna pay 7 figures for a twitter handle?
And I was also like, so wait, how does 2FA work?
Tom@evacide When I had the @netflix account, Netflix "bought" it from me for a year of free netflix. (It was supposed to be a lifetime, but the guy, Michael something, couldn't do more than a year). He said he could have just taken it, but since my use of the account to provide support was what got the board interested in using Netflix (seriously, I demonstrated it, that made them do it), he wanted to thank me. I think since Elon owned the X mark, he could have gone the long way around too.
Daniel AJ Sokolov@evacide I would think it's unjust enrichment at the least. And the liability exclusions in the Twitter terms and conditions don't apply because taking the handle is wanton.
But if course it's more complex. I hope to see court rulings on it!
Nate Martin
Thiago Figueiró@evacide isn’t this standard T&Cs? I suspect that if google wants my gmail address, there’s bugger all I can do about it.
Krellan@evacide Yep, I know and have met in person the previous owner of the “x” account name at birdsite, through pinball. Sucks for him as he announced on Facebook he basically got zero compensation for having his account seized by Elon. He is a professional photographer who had used the account for many years.