• Prater@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I hope I’m not alone in finding it utterly ridiculous that a company can literally hold rights over a single letter.

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      1 year ago

      Keep in mind that it’s in a particular context. It seems a bit ridiculous as a headline, but if they were actively using the branding, it might not seem so ridiculous: imagine Facebook (I will not call them Meta) is already operating a social media site for posting short thoughts called X with the TLD social (hypothetically). And they’ve been operating it as X for 10 years. Then Elon does this. Clearly Facebook has a suit because that’s straight-up infringement.

      This is a little more hazy because Facebook isn’t actively using their X trademark, and it’s not exactly the same as Twitter. But they do hold the rights to it (as far as I can tell from the one tweet (xeet?) about it). And it’s not (quite) as ridiculous as it sounds.

      Also,

      Twitter auto-replied to Insider’s request for comment with a message saying that the communications department would get back to us soon.

      Is this a euphemism for the poop emoji??

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      1 year ago

      If it makes you feel any better, the CEO of Oracle, Larry Ellison, pretty much bought out the entire island of Lanai from the state of Hawaii.

      So a letter doesn’t surprise me too much.