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Also X, the rapper, who’s “gonna give it to yuh.”
RIP
Did he die?
Couple years ago, yeah. Damn time flies.
DMX? in 2021 he died
Well technically he went by DMX, but hes dead now so its moot anyway.
Also Xzibit lol
Yo dawg, we heard you like X…
Also X (video game series).
Also vin diesel might be chiming in
Doctor X … will build a creature …
And who’s logo, which predates Twitters, is strikingly similar.
“You can’t own letters, man” -Elon, probably
He already lost that fight to Mercedes for the letter E.
“I can, but that’s because I’m not a penniless hippie.” Also Elon, probably
Basically, it’s a legal minefield that is almost indefensible. Anyone want to make a Mastodom X Window client with a web access version of it?
Make it double X’s for extra “salt to the fire” points.
I thought it was nigh impossible to trademark a letter?
I saw a tweet from the founder of xe.com who literally used the same logo in the 90s and he discussed the challenges in globally trademarking a single letter.
Both aspects were giant cans of worms for El Musky.
I’m glad we’re currently on a good news streak. Those climate change articles were weighing on me.
Agreed lol
So does that make Elon Musk an X-Offender?
I want Musk to lose but I hate the idea of a single letter being copyright.
Trademark, not copyright. It means that you can’t make something and call it “X” if there’s any chance that your “X” and their “X” might get mixed up. Google ran into this same problem when they created “Alphabet” - it was already a trademark of some German car manufacturer (probably Audi or BMW), but the court ruled that “Alphabet the car company” and “Alphabet the online services company” are far enough apart that the average user probably won’t confuse one for the other (although the Dove soap and Dove chocolate makes me doubt it). Twitter and Microsoft both offer online services. It might be enough of an overlap to constitute a trademark violation.
Oh damn, is that why chocolates have been tasting so weird lately? Ig I’ve been eating soap!
Copyright and trademarks are different things. In this case it looks like it applies mainly to the Xbox “X” logo like is seen on this (hilarious) page of the filing and is only for things related to messaging and gaming, so it’s not as broad as it sounds. Based on a cursory look at Google results from before July 1st, I can’t find any examples of Microsoft actually suing anyone for using the letter X, either.
Love your username!!!
This is my first thought. How does a company own a single letter? Why is this allowed?
What do you think is a reasonable cutoff for a trademark?
5 letters? 3? 2?
A full word that you made up.
I recommend use “Ğ” what is unsellable letter
What about the Malcolm X Estate, do they have a say in this?
The X-box. X.org, the X files… and now, simply… X.
Folks really love the X letter for some reason.
It’s used a lot for spot-marking.
Oh yeah. X marks the spot, etc.
Theres also three X’s which means… uhhmmm… “that”.
Xander Zone.
Xucking xour xom?
Professor Utonium is also gonna sue Elon for the Element X trademark
Phoney Stark’s gonna get into a lot of hot water over that.
Yeah definitely don’t need to check that out beforehand
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Hard to tell if he’s winning or losing. If he’s being incentivized to destroy the integrity of a mainstream information-sharing platform, he’s done well. If he in any way wanted to run the company, he’s done laughably bad. I guess time will tell
I’ve always been kind of tin-foil-hatty about that. Like there’s no way he can actually fucking suck this much at this, right? It really seems like somebody paid him to take down a major information sharing platform that helps to further protests and other organized dissent.
We may see other major online social platforms collapse for no discernible reason…
Ah, excellent. I’ve been waiting for the IP fallout from this dumpster fire… Here we go 😊
For as much as the reddit/Lemmy communities claim to hate Elon they talk about him constantly.
Elon 2028
Hard to not talk about a train wreck.
Especially if the train somehow managed to dismantle tracks that is going to run on.
You do realize he was born in South Africa so is therefore ineligible to hold the office of President right?
News sites talk about news. That includes things that people don’t like.
It’s kind of like saying:
-Those guys on reddit sure do talk about Walmart taking advantage of their workers even though they hate capitalism
-Climate activists talk about climate change a lot, I thought they hated it?
-Why does fox news spend so much time hating on democrats? Don’t they know that they aren’t supposed to talk about stuff they disagree with?
Elon doesn’t have to be liked to be relevant.
We used to get this bullshit all the time on r/atheism on Reddit. “You guys sure talk about religion/God a lot for atheists.” What the fuck else are a bunch of atheists getting together going to talk about, baseball?
It’s fun to talk about clowns.
