Has Threads already become a serious threat to Twitter? It’s starting to look like it, as the blue bird platform, now led by chairman Elon Musk and CEO Linda Yaccarino, has threatened legal action against Meta and the Instagram team’s newly launched rival, claiming that the app was developed with “Twitter’s trade secrets and other intellectual property.” If Twitter’s legal team is to be believed, Meta intentionally hired Twitter employees to exploit their knowledge for Threads, although Meta has already shot back and called the accusations baseless, stating that the team doesn’t actually include any former Twitter employees. The drama comes less than a day after Zuckerberg announced on Threads that the platform had attracted 30 million sign-ups in its first few hours online.
“Twitter intends to strictly enforce its intellectual property rights, and demands that Meta take immediate steps to stop using any Twitter trade secrets or other highly confidential information,” Spiro wrote in a letter shared by Semafor.
“Twitter reserves all rights, including, but not limited to, the right to seek both civil remedies and injunctive relief without further notice to prevent any further retention, disclosure, or use of its intellectual property by Meta.”
Whether you’re a creator or a casual poster, Threads offers a new, separate space for real-time updates and public conversations. We are working toward making Threads compatible with the open, interoperable social networks that we believe can shape the future of the internet.
Instagram is where billions of people around the world connect over photos and videos. Our vision with Threads is to take what Instagram does best and expand that to text, creating a positive and creative space to express your ideas. Just like on Instagram, with Threads you can follow and connect with friends and creators who share your interests – including the people you follow on Instagram and beyond. And you can use our existing suite of safety and user controls.
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I bet they'll soon start labeling twitter as an alt-right platform on mainstream media.
uhh, they already have been.
I mean they have been making policy changes that allow harassment to certain minorities so yeah...
Name one.
He means free speech. Oh, the horror.
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And harassment online has fuck all to do with free speech. This isn't 4chan.
And if your definition of free speech includes hate speech, you are also probably a fan of the alt-right.
I didn't know that but I'm glad they removed that clause as it is incompatible with free speech. Free speech is not possible when you are compelled to use specific language. It also prevents the expression of certain opinions.
Hate speech does not equal "speech I don't like" it means speech that is specifically aimed to incite hate and or violence regardless of the target. Putting up special clauses for certain groups makes them privileged, not equal. This is why I'm also against banning the term cisgender as well. Although they are not enforcing it it seems, which makes it another drop in the bucket of Elon says stupid things without consequences.
Free speech is well and good. But private companies have a right to restrict what's on their platform.
The Apple and Google store ToS requires them to moderate.
Surely if they are allowed to restrict something they are also allowed to remove that restriction later.
Requiring moderation is to avoid illegal content, although instagram seems to have a very bad track record on that one, yet they were never threatened to be removed unless they clean house. This moderation thing seems extremely one sided, anything goes except what a certain group of ideologs don't like.
I suppose those moderators have to make opinion based decisions on what content to allow or not allow on the platform they are paid to moderate. You'd need to examine their guidelines in moderation to understand what isn't or is permissible.
Well that's the crux of the problem, most social media sites have rules that are so vague it is impossible to tell what is acceptable and what isn't. And even if they suspend you for something they don't tell you the exact violation. It's Kafkaesque:
- You are suspended for violating the terms and services
- OK, but what did I violate so I can make sure not to do it again?
- We don't have to tell you that.
Apparently can't get rid of threads without getting rid of ig or some such ( not that I care)