Musk's X is trying to stop The Onion from buying Alex Jones' social media accounts.

Does it feel like your X account belongs to you and you can do whatever you want with it? That’s not true, according to a new court filing from the social media company formerly known as Twitter. It’s an argument that X is making in order to throw a wrench in The Onion’s recent purchase of InfoWars, the conspiracy theory media company run by Alex Jones. And it’s a great reminder that you don’t actually own what you think you own in the digital age.

  • bizarroland@fedia.io
    6·
    22 days ago

    I don’t know why you’re 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.

    • pivot_root@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      22 days ago

      They own the content you put on the platform.

      This will depend on the terms of service agreement. Some of them try to get away with this, while others just give themselves an irrevocable license to use content you publish on their platform.