Feels like a great time for a competitor to explicitly state that you in fact, do own your account on their site. Nuance to that as tech bros is always gonna be tech bros (and blue sky is also tech bros, just with temporary infective to say "nah man, it's cool baby..." for the time being while they build market share). But basically stating that you have full ownership and responsibility to manage your account, and that management transfers along with any kind of power of attorney shift or through any other related court actions

OK, but why should this block the sale? The twitter handle is only a small part of the Infowars assets.

Weird, because their help articles suggest giving account handles over in the case of trademark infringement. https://help.x.com/en/search-results?limit=10&offset=0&q=Trademark&searchPath=%2Fcontent%2Fhelp-twitter%2Fen&sort=relevance

My tinfoil take: There’s something in the Twitter DM between him and Alex Jones that NEEDS to stay private.

Yeah. This won't hasten the exodus to Bluesky or anything

Just a reminder... melon head is a junkie. Everything he says is a drugged up delusion. Nothing to see here, just walk on by.

I just need someone to explain to me how this doesn't mean he's liable for anything posted on every account. If he has ownership of the account then the liability rest with him. So the meteoric rise of child pornography on Twitter would seem to indicate to me at least that Elon Musk is liable for child pornography. Not to mention hate speech and credible threats.

In 2022, Musk was hesitant to allow Jones back on the social media platform after he had been banned years earlier. Musk specifically said at the time that he wouldn’t allow Jones back on Twitter because his first child died and suggested that Jones had caused too much pain to grieving parents after the Sandy Hook massacre.

“My firstborn child died in my arms. I felt his last heartbeat. I have no mercy for anyone who would use the deaths of children for gain, politics or fame,” Musk tweeted on Nov. 20, 2022, roughly a month after buying the platform.

I'm surprised people still have any respect for this hypocrite.

Sure, but that doesn't mean he owns any trademarks that might appear within those account names, like, say, Infowars or some such. He can give the account to whoever he wants. But he can't protect them from being sued for trademark infringement if they use it.

Ok then. Close the account.

does this mean whoever bought dril's account has to give it back

Pepperidge Farm remembers when he took over the @x account from a long time user and no 'no transferable license was ever muttered when it benefited him not to do so.

you take away all his money and you're just left with pure, raw asshole.

So he’s going to take his ball and go home..?

Man.

He's like if Dr. Evil and every bond villain were combined into one, then poorly written in a Sci-fi channel special as the wealthiest man in the world.

He doesn't actually do anything but be rich and say stupid shit, and for some reason people keep going along with it

But they have been transferred. They've taken accounts away from people.

So if you threaten someone on Twitter it's really Elon threatening them? Interesting.

Mean the one I deleted a while ago?

The hero of free speech everyone.

Technically he's right. It's like the access card to a shitty gym, the card is their property, provided to you as long as you fulfill your part of the agreement.

Except that this time, the gym is owned by a megalomaniac madman. I'd let him keep the card and let him waddle in the filth of his own making all by himself.