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After rebranding, X took x from its original Twitter owner and offered him merch
- javajosh 3y agoIt's so important for any platform owner/operator to at least be perceived as being unbiased on the platform, and at best to actually be unbiased. But the siren song of unfair advantage to executive leadership is, in many cases, irresistible. This strongly implies that there is no possible privately owned platform. The profit motive is too powerful to be resisted, and too vague to be enforced by any cultural norms.
- 3cats-in-a-coat 3y ago[flagged]
- 3cats-in-a-coat 3y ago"Hey, sorry for no warning, we took your name" "What are you gonna give me for it?" "We can give you some merch with the name on it, to remind you that we took your name" Literally how it went (slightly paraphrased to inject my opinion above): https://twitter.com/birdhustle/status/1685348651780964352 https://twitter.com/birdhustle/status/1685348651780964352
- CrzyLngPwd 3y agoTwitter, the company, owned it. He was just using it while they didn't want it.