404 Media
X's legal filing in the InfoWars bankruptcy case is both batshit crazy and also what you'd expect. It asserts that X owns every account, can do whatever it wants with them, and can inject itself into legal proceedings that have nothing to do with it.
This is why it's incredibly important that people invest in platforms that they own, and move toward federated/decentralized/portable, noncorporate social media as rapidly as possible
Ryan for a permanent ceasefire
@404mediaco If X wants to claim ownership of the InfoWars account, wouldn't that mean they're also legally and financially responsible for the harms perpetrated by the InfoWars account?
Maybe the Sandy Hook families actually can get some of the monetary restitution they deserve after all!
Râu Cao ⚡
@404mediaco Similarly, when someone is banned from a fediverse instance, that's the right of whoever controls the domain of the instance. They can then also do whatever they want with the username afterwards.
This is why portable objects and client-side signing of all content are important.
Râu Cao ⚡
@404mediaco There's nothing batshit crazy at all about a company owning the URLs on their own domain. That automatically includes public usernames on centralized services.
BeAware
@vbence @404mediaco @root42 anyone can be an instance owner though. I am personally on my own instance.🤷♂️
Bence Varga
@404mediaco @root42 to ba fair, #mastodon is not there either. Your instance admin can do the same.
Bence Varga
@BeAware @404mediaco @root42 it is not a setup feasible for most people. It would be solvable, but we are not there yet.
BeAware
@vbence @404mediaco @root42 Well, I figured we were discussing it in the case of The Onion which they totally could afford.🤷♂️
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