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It's not illegal, but how is this not unethical?
by asdajksah2123 3y ago
It's not illegal, but how is this not unethical?
- tekla 3y agoWhat is unethical about it?
- fsociety 3y agoTook someone’s identity on the platform, even worse because they have established it for 16 years. Taking it because they rebranded to X on a whim is silly.
- tekla 3y agoHow is that unethical?
- metaltyphoon 3y agoWow, I can’t believe you can’t see what is unethical about it.
- tekla 3y agoAs it turns out a minor insult is actually not an argument for why something is unethical
- notaustinpowers 3y agoIt's like if I took your email account you've used since 2007 because I changed my name to yours because I liked it better. Yeah, he's the owner of the company, legally he can do it. Doesn't make it any less unethical and poor taste.
- AnimalMuppet 3y agoBecause it's breaking at least an implicit promise - that your account is under your control.
- tekla 3y agoThe TOS doesn't say anything about that https://twitter.com/en/tos https://twitter.com/en/tos > We may suspend or terminate your account or cease providing you with all or part of the Services at any time for any or no reason
- AnimalMuppet 3y agoImplicit promise. I know the TOS doesn't promise it - it never does, anywhere. Still, there's an expectation that the account is yours, not a plaything for the owner's whims. And there's an expectation that "for any or no reason" means something more than no reason. And, yeah, "a verbal promise is worth the paper it's written on" (that is, none). And this wasn't even a verbal promise. Still, I maintain that the expectation really exists, and that companies like exTwitter are perfectly well aware that it exists. That's why doing this is a jerk move.
- pfannkuchen 3y agoI honestly don’t know how most people determine if something is ethical. At this point when someone says “unethical” it usually seems equivalent to “mean”.
- JohnFen 3y agoI think that when people say something is "unethical", what they mean is that thing is not compatible with their ethical code. That's the criteria they're using. > it usually seems equivalent to “mean”. Isn't it possible that being "mean" is against their ethical code?
- BizarroLand 3y agoYou said it yourself. It's a dick move. Dick moves are inherently unethical.
- tekla 3y agoThe definition of unethical seems to have been incredibly weakened if a dick move is unethical. Lets say I tip 0% instead of the expected 15% for normal service at a restaurant, would that be considered unethical? I expect generally Americans would consider it a dick move. Is anything that could be possibly construed as negative be considered unethical?
- BizarroLand 3y agoSophistry will get you nowhere. There is an objective truth regardless of whether you choose to participate in seeing it.
- tekla 3y agoI was unaware that after thousands of years of the debate over ethics, that we had settled on a objective set of universal ethics. Can you please tell me what those universal objective set of ethics are first? And following that, how this is unethical
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- craftsman 3y agoGene X. Hwang's @x account appears to have been paid, hence "verified" according to Twitter/X. So taking a so-called "verified" account and re-assigning the identity behind it is deceptive. So that's how it's unethical.