I have no idea who that is.

Copyright is law which is used to prevent free copying of media, while “intellectual property” is a term cooked up by corporate suits to generalize copyright, trademarks, and patents and equate them with property law. Richard Stallman wrote about this.

It has become fashionable to toss copyright, patents, and trademarks—three separate and different entities involving three separate and different sets of laws—plus a dozen other laws into one pot and call it “intellectual property.” The distorting and confusing term did not become common by accident. Companies that gain from the confusion promoted it. The clearest way out of the confusion is to reject the term entirely.

Humans are not a threat to the Earth. Do you mean that humans are a threat to the environment? That would mean that we’re a threat to ourselves. It wouldn’t make sense to destroy us to save us from ourselves.

There’s something seriously wrong with our communication infrastructure if some rich nutjob can just buy up an important piece of it and run it into the ground like this. This could’ve never happened if Twitter were a worker-owned collective. Chalk another one up for capitalism.

I think the employees that are anti-Sam are the ones this letter is addressed to.

I wish I could block Elon Musk from reality.

I’ve been using Discord since 2017 and not once have I had some random stranger get naked on camera. I’m not saying that there aren’t problems with it. There probably are. I just think that saying it’s worse than Omegle is bizarre.

That’s nuts! I thought that Omegle was text only. I had no idea that they paired you with people on video. WTF thought that was a good idea?!?

What do you mean? It only takes one person to do this and upload it?

He’s a “free speech absolutist”. Unless the speech offends him.

So, Musk could do anything at all with X, and you’d still keep using it. Got it.

Where do you draw the line? What would Musk have to do before you said “Fuck it. I’m not using this site anymore”?

I think it’s important to call out bigotry whenever you see it.

Boycotts can work. Leave, and let people know why you’re leaving. (The second part is important!)

If you look into the detransitioner movement, it is indeed anti-trans.

I’m sure if we ignore him, he’ll just go away. That’s how this works, right?

What a bunch of assholes.

Yeah, it’s really surprising that an ethical, upstanding company like Meta would pull a dick move like that. It’s so out of character.

I don’t miss much about it. My heart goes out to people who had communities on there that were important to them. Like many things, this hit minorities the hardest.

Unfortunately, “Rich asshole buys thing and screws minorities” is a daily occurrence. (Although rarely at this scale.)

Nicklin’s colleague and Die Gute Fabrik co-founder Douglas Wilson added that it was “infuriating to watch large corporations gut one of the most valuable communities/services on the internet.”

We’ve been here before. Remember mp3.com? For those who don’t, imagine if somebody bought Bandcamp and then deleted all of the music.

How does software have gatekeeping? Does a dialog box pop up and say “I’m sorry, you are not cool enough to use this app”?