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.

  • piccolo@sh.itjust.works
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    26 days ago

    I thought we were talking about who legally can lay claim on copyrights in the hypothetically house with a whiteboard? i’m not the one lost with the program.

    • trolololol@lemmy.world
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      25 days ago

      You see, x is the pen, Infowars is the ink and we’re the contents of the water bowl all along

      Skibidi dibidi bop