Cont: Musk buys Twitter II

Darat said:
for X to hold onto those images.
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Really doubt there's much liability for Twitter assuming they deleted the posts. Pretty much every website that allows for user content has to deal with illegal material being regularly posted.

Musk intervened to unban his kiddie porn posting pal, but the offending posts themselves were not restored.
 
Beerina said:
It's privately owned. Can't he just sink the damned thing if he wants? These companies have notoriously little "stuff" they can sell off to repay creditors. Some aging computers? A few buildings?
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Problem for Musk is a) he had to secure most of his finances off his personal assets, not Twitter and b) his co-investors will dismember you for looking at them sideways, never mind losing them $13bn.
 
Gulliver Foyle said:
Problem for Musk is a) he had to secure most of his finances off his personal assets, not Twitter and b) his co-investors will dismember you for looking at them sideways, never mind losing them $13bn.
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The $13 billion is owed to several banks, not to Saudi Arabia. I think the dismemberers are only in it to the tune of a couple of billion.
 
Dr. Keith said:
I am a trademark attorney. This is a bad trademark. Meta isn’t likely to sue, but X will likely have to sue Meta to terminate their trademark if X wants to have a trademark for similar goods and services.

There are lots of facts that could change that analysis and I haven’t done any research or looked at any legal articles about this from people willing to do that research for free. If I see something from someone I would trust I’ll link to it later.
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I wonder if one reason he backed down from his rebranding of Paypal as ""X Com" is his attorneys told him he would have fight with Microprose because they had a very sucessful series of computer games with that name.
 
dudalb said:
I wonder if one reason he backed down from his rebranding of Paypal as ""X Com" is his attorneys told him he would have fight with Microprose because they had a very sucessful series of computer games with that name.
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Have, not had. They are still selling them, and making new ones. Thats very much an active trademark, unlike "X".
 
lobosrul5 said:
Have, not had. They are still selling them, and making new ones. Thats very much an active trademark, unlike "X".
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Oh, I know,I know.
IHave not played the latest, but bought it on GOG.
The first remains my favorite, though.
 
arthwollipot said:
[IMGw=800]https://i.imgur.com/b6XP07r.jpeg[/IMGw]
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That was one of the main reasons he was overruled when they were setting up the payment company that came to be called PayPal.

He's very Trumpian, he never forgets a slight.

The fundamental idea of what he wants to do is sound. WeChat in China is making a fortune. His execution is lacking.
 
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dudalb said:
I wonder if one reason he backed down from his rebranding of Paypal as ""X Com" is his attorneys told him he would have fight with Microprose because they had a very sucessful series of computer games with that name.
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No he backed down because Peter Thiel had fired him for incompetence and his only remaining involvement in Paypal was to collect his dividends cheques.
 
a_unique_person said:
That was one of the main reasons he was overruled when they were setting up the payment company that came to be called PayPal.

He's very Trumpian, he never forgets a slight.

The fundamental idea of what he wants to do is sound. WeChat in China is making a fortune. His execution is lacking.
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Wechat is only making a fortune because it has a captive audience. If you're not using the app you're carted off to a reeducation camp and never seen again.
 
a_unique_person said:
You exaggerate. It offers much more than chat now including finance and shopping. That's what Musk wants X to be.
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Aside from the fact that the Chinese government is very much encouraging everybody to use WeChat, do you really want one person to own the app that runs your whole life?

It's a stupid and dangerous idea. Imagine if X was the only retail site and the only finance provider and you did something to annoy Elon Musk. Imagine if he leaked all the details of your financial transactions on amazon. Imagine if he kicked you off so you couldn't buy anything anymore and your employer no longer had anywhere to send your paycheques.

It's a dystopia.
 
jeremyp said:
Aside from the fact that the Chinese government is very much encouraging everybody to use WeChat, do you really want one person to own the app that runs your whole life? It's a stupid and dangerous idea. Imagine if X was the only retail site and the only finance provider and you did something to annoy Elon Musk. Imagine if he leaked all the details of your financial transactions on amazon. Imagine if he kicked you off so you couldn't buy anything anymore and your employer no longer had anywhere to send your paycheques.

It's a dystopia.
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Really? You need to get out more.
 
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