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Elon Musk changes X terms to steer lawsuits to his favorite Texas court (arstechnica.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I hate him so much.

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[–] [email protected] 90 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The fact that we have so much of our politics in a private company is dangerous.

Musk has the power AND ability to post tweets as if they were from any of the candidates.

Not as a sock puppet. But as them directly.

This is a dangerous ability.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I hadn't considered that. He couldn't get away with it now, but if the orange bad gets back into power and we go full-fash, I definitely think it'd be used against "enemies."

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 weeks ago

He very much could get away with it now. None of the candidates, as far as I'm aware, have a public key published and none of them have any way of verifying that the tweet is from the account holder.

Sure a tweet from Kamala saying, "I believe we should execute all illegals" might be an easy one.

But think of this more subtle tweet: "The United States believes in the sovereignty of all recognized nations."

We need our politicians to stop using Twitter for official communications.