Yeah, well, Starmer is appalling, but I also don’t want the far-right Reform party getting into power, thank you very much.
The Twit destroying Twitter is a Twaitor
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Well, yeah. If there was an early GE, there are only two possible outcomes: 1.) Labour lose loads of seats but stays in power, and sharply moves (even further to the) right to ‘compensate’ 2.) Elon gets his way, and there is a Tory-Reform frankengovernment which acts like a puppet regime for Trump.
Remember, Musk is agitating for a general election here because in his worldview, those violent far-right protesters who kicked off during the summer here are “political prisoners” once they’ve been locked up. Ignoring the fact of all the terrible crimes they did, setting fire to buildings full of people and so on, the judiciary here is non-political. Judges in Britain are independent of the government, aren’t hand-picked by politicians, aren’t elected, and don’t have party affiliations. The government didn’t tell the judges who to jail, and the judges were merely enacting the existing laws in jailing the violent protesters.
(Also, do we really want oligarchs like Elon Musk actively dictating which party governs nations that they don’t live in and aren’t a citizen of? And as an extension of that, do we really want Trump “doing a Putin” and disrupting overseas election in his favour?)
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Musk retains Canadian citizenship, and I don't want him any more involved in those elections than casting his own ballot, thankyouverymuch.....
Found out another reason that Musk could be moving companies to Texas, besides favorable courts in general:
en.wikipedia.org
Texas two-step bankruptcy - Wikipedia
Thats the kind of jive that needs to be outlawed on the federal level.Found out another reason that Musk could be moving companies to Texas, besides favorable courts in general:
Texas two-step bankruptcy - Wikipedia
Well, it's at least a reminder that Musk doesn't think you own your social media accounts. I'm curious to learn how the courts decide.
X's Objection to the Onion Buying InfoWars Is a Reminder You Do Not Own Your Social Media Accounts
"X CORP. OWNS THE X ACCOUNTS."www.404media.co
The courts will rule in favour of musk on that: not just because the terms of service outright state that anything you upload is property of twitter (I will never call it x.) but also because the individual accounts do not exist in a vacuum; they only exist because the service exists and leon owns the service.
When you have a free service; the user is the commodity.
When you have a free service; the user is the commodity.
Even granting that Twitter owns the tweets, I'm not convinced the courts would find that assertion enough to prevent the sale. It seems a pretty spurious argument, to me.
I'm certain the courts will find for Musk on this. As Wonko said, it's his platform, we use it under his terms of service which clearly spell out that he retains ownership.
I don't think this is enough to stop the sale, but I do think that the twitter account will be removed from the sale terms.
I don't think this is enough to stop the sale, but I do think that the twitter account will be removed from the sale terms.
If he tries to sell Alex Jones the account and let him keep posting under it, the Onion can just nail him for trademark infringement. Trademarks expire if they're not being actively used, and the Onion almost definitely bought InfoWars specifically to erase it from existence, but I think there's a minimum downtime period where you have plausible deniability, and we all know neither Musk nor Jones is going to want to wait until that time is up.