politics

I can't believe I'm saying this, but... this isn't quite as bad as it looks.

although clearly they could have handled the situation better.

Agreed, but I mean has been the general theme with the new owner. Everything could have been handled better, but nothing was.

Users do not technically own their handles on X.

Another reason why the fediverse is better. We have better control over this, simply by owning our own instances. Then admins on another instance can't simply seize our usernames.

It appears the original owner hasn’t posted on X since it was called Twitter, in May 2020.

So basically they released a handle that otherwise wasn't going to be used and would have gone to waste.

It would be better if they had a general policy about these things .. but considering the owner...

as it pertains to the @X handle, the company had a good case that they should have ownership of it

Less good as the user was actively using it beforehand but the justification is also stronger in this case.

I’m not interested in what a drug-addled white supremacist has to say. I’m not allowed to use edibles on my days off because it can put my job at risk but this piece-of-shit uses ketamine, acid, shrooms and cocaine and is still allowed to have expensive government contracts.

Do Twitter usernames have value? Could this be considered a massive in kind campaign contribution?

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"Let me tell you why I claim to support trump."

The real reasons would never be spoken aloud.

Imagine a world where this shit was illegal

Can Americans become media-literate quickly? That question could determine the election

Vote for Trump so I won't lose my captive market 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Stealing @America sounds about right up his alley. Just like T Daddy.

After this, I don't know what more proof anyone could possibly need that Xitter is purely a right-wing propaganda platform exactly equivalent to the likes of Truth [sic] Social. Anyone who continues to use Xitter supports this behavior. Continued use of accounts like @POTUS or @KamalaHarris or these is effectively an endorsement of equating Donald Trump with America. It has to stop! The platform has to be fully abandoned by every single person, organization, or government entity that isn't fascist; there is no choice now.

Honest question from a non-American.

If Trump loses, how much of a case does Harris have of going after Musk for interfering in an election?

What a fucking loser honestly

I don’t need to read @America to know why you support Trump. We all know. All of us know Elon.

Anyone still in Twitter is a clown. It's not different from being on Truth Social.

See you don't get it, it's totally fine for musk to take the @America tag and push Twitter for Trump. Twitter was SUPER biased before because you couldn't say the N-word whenever you want. It's not biased at all now because it's completely far right which is obviously the Correct Way to Be™ so it can't be biased.

-dipshits

How long before Musk/Trump merges Twitter and Truth? They're basically the same place at this point.

But MAH FREEZED PEACH! The world's town square, argle bargle....

-Any given Crazy Uncle Liberty, probably.

Musk is so disgusting.

Now I'm no legal expert, but wouldn't appropriating someone's social media account to post your own political propaganda literally be a violation of that user's 1st amendment rights? Isn't Musk really into freedom of speech?

I can't wait until Trump loses interest in Musk.

I hope it's the final push over the edge Musk needs.

I'm all for hating on musk/trump. But do we know if he actually stole the handle/tag or if he paid an obscene amount of money to the original owner?

I hate Twitter and deleted my account a long time ago but facts matter and assuming he stole the tag is just as bad as what he is doing. We may never know what actually happened but I'm curious

If you're still on Xitter at this point, you deserve all the bullshit you get. That place is a cesspool. You can't swim in the toilet and then pretend to be mad you're covered in shit.