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The Weirdest Domains Alex Jones Has to Give to The Onion
From infowarsbabes.com to goblinlove.com, Infowars owns some strange domains.
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Well, who doesn't love goblins?The Weirdest Domains Alex Jones Has to Give to The Onion
From infowarsbabes.com to goblinlove.com, Infowars owns some strange domains.
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Goblin Love sounds like a dating service for people who enter Goblin Mode and never want to leave.
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'Highly unusual': Elon Musk's X objects to very specific piece of The Onion's Infowars bid
Satirical newspaper The Onion made waves when it moved to buy the assets of Infowars, the far-right conspiracy theory webcast of Alex Jones, from a bankruptcy auction. But there was a sudden, unexpected wrinkle in the sale, reported 404 Media on Tuesday: lawyers for tech billionaire Elon Musk...
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Isn't that some sort of violation of trademark or copyright? I mean, maybe if he just, refuses to let them use those accounts then fine whatever, maybe there is a thing there, but if his intention is to just, use those accounts himself, pretending to be Onion Owned Infowars, that would be illegal.
Not that it matters at the moment with our broken ass corrupt and useless legal system.
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There's a helpful summary of the issues here
While individual account owners own the IP to whatever they've posted on their accounts, X's case is that account holders can't transfer their accounts without X's permission, a bit like the way we can't transfer SL accounts without LL's permission.
So, assuming Musk's case succeeds, it would seem that while the new owners of Infowars will be able to what they want with the existing contents of Infowars' X accounts (delete them, publish them elsewhere, print them on novelty toilet paper), they won't be able to take over the account itself and start posting their own content on it without X's agreement. I would think that they'll be able to stop Musk giving the account back to Alex Jones,since they'll own the title "Infowars," but I'm not sure. Unless perhaps Jones were to label his recovered Infowars account as a parody account, to avoid confusion with the new owners of the title (though not the X account) "Infowars"?
While individual account owners own the IP to whatever they've posted on their accounts, X's case is that account holders can't transfer their accounts without X's permission, a bit like the way we can't transfer SL accounts without LL's permission.
So, assuming Musk's case succeeds, it would seem that while the new owners of Infowars will be able to what they want with the existing contents of Infowars' X accounts (delete them, publish them elsewhere, print them on novelty toilet paper), they won't be able to take over the account itself and start posting their own content on it without X's agreement. I would think that they'll be able to stop Musk giving the account back to Alex Jones,since they'll own the title "Infowars," but I'm not sure. Unless perhaps Jones were to label his recovered Infowars account as a parody account, to avoid confusion with the new owners of the title (though not the X account) "Infowars"?