@drewdevault 100% but I had to assume you mean "allowed in the USA" since trademark law is different where I live and a name of a product/software could be infringed upon without prior registration (but the process of proving that is usually more costly than just outright registering a ™).
@deirdresm@thomasfuchs Please read the Tesla manuals and let me know how to open the rear door in the newest model Y in case of a power cut off without a tool.
The thing is: Tesla doesn't provide a way to open the rear door without power. Having read the manual doesn't resolve the core issue of evacuating a car in case of an emergency.
@gsuberland@dalias@404mediaco Not exactly consumer law this time :( However without going into legal minutae most (if not all?) Polish customers of Newag bought Impulse 2 trains with money from taxes in public tenders. There's an additional book of regulations to hit them with for defrauding the taxpayer which might have EU-wide consequences.
@thomasfuchs If you're saying that Elon would just give it to someone with all the followers, same logo and description. Then sure. It will go very fast to the "find out" phase of trademark law. In the morning I thought nobody would do that, but then again it's Elon so he probably would.
If he deletes the account and lets someone register it again with 0 followers. I'm not so sure.
@thomasfuchs Not quite, at least not yet. It depends a lot on how the new user would use the account. With 3 letter acronyms there's bound to be an unrelated NPR. If someone impersonates them - sure, but even then you have parody accounts which can be legal.
Do people believe there's something official in private playground accounts (like twitter or meta)? Their ToS usually explicitly says any account can be seized at any time if they deem it necessary.