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Twitter security staff kept firm in compliance by disobeying Musk, FTC says (arstechnica.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology

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[–] BloodSlut 195 points 10 months ago (4 children)

"twitter (which is currently named x)"

amazing

[–] gibmiser 97 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Fucking brain dead rebrand

[–] TwilightVulpine 16 points 10 months ago (1 children)

They had a brand that was so powerful it was used as a verb, and he gave it up for the letter that is used as a generic placeholder, just because he's obssessed with it for whatever reason.

[–] AngryCommieKender 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Saw a theory a few weeks ago that he's obsessed with "X," because that's how most of the native Africans signed away their sovereignty, and their land, to the European invaders.

No proof, but given where he grew up, it seems plausible.

[–] partial_accumen 29 points 10 months ago

Its a good use of brevity. Otherwise it would look like this:

“twitter (which is currently named x and will be renamed back to Twitter after the eventual decline and subsequent fire sale of the smoldering remains of the company)”

[–] [email protected] 26 points 10 months ago

While funny, it wasn't intended as a burn. They are reporting on events that happened at Twitter, because it was named Twitter when these things happened, and is now called X.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It won't always be called X. 2027: Elon buys a domain registrar. 2031: Elon buys unicode. 2032: Elon allows unicode in domain names. The same day, Elon adds an "Xtreme X" emoji to unicode (it sort of looks like it's spinning, xtreme style), and registers the domain.

[–] abhibeckert 26 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I'm hoping for something like:

2024: Elon is found guilty of failing to uphold the obligations imposed on Twitter back in their 2011 lawsuit around misuse of information; Former Twitter staff are found to have heroically attempted to follow the law but were fired for doing so; Elon is ordered to sell X
2025: Mastodon buys it for five million dollars; Elon is forced to sell all his shares in Tesla/SpaceX to pay a $200b fine to the FTC (his net worth is $201b, so he'd still be filthy rich - important to make the fine actually payable so he can't declare bankruptcy);
late 2025: Mastodon rebrands X to Twitter which becomes just another Fediverse instance. One that is popular among high profile celebrities who can pay a fee to have their identity verified. One where posting discriminatory content gets you banned, permanently. Anyone who retweets your post is also banned for a month.
2026: FTC sets gets to use all $200 billion on their own budget in order to hire more staff and do their job properly going forward
2027 into the foreseeable future: every company in America suddenly starts pro-actively obeying FTC regulations instead of waiting for enforcement actions that almost never happen due to a lack of funding.

[–] IndyRap 9 points 10 months ago

Man I love me a good fiction book lol