Tag: Twitter

Elon Musk openly tells his 121 million followers to follow QAnon | Boing Boing


Like Donald Trump, it’s easy to brush off Elon Musk as an attention-seeking, self-sabotaging fool who will eventually implode without any help from others. Meanwhile, the richest moron in the…

Source: Elon Musk openly tells his 121 million followers to follow QAnon | Boing Boing

Devin Nunes Demands Satirical Internet Cow Stop Making Fun Of Him… Or Else | Techdirt

Nunes’ lawyer in the case has sent a threatening demand letter to Andrew Janz, a lawyer and state prosecutor who ran against Nunes in the last election and lost (much more narrowly than many people seemed to expect). The full letter is truly a piece of work, demanding Janz make the @DevinCow account stop making fun of Devin Nunes and issue an apology.

Source: Devin Nunes Demands Satirical Internet Cow Stop Making Fun Of Him… Or Else | Techdirt

Starz, meet the Streisand Effect. Cable telly giant apologizes for demented DMCA Twitter takedown spree • The Register

Inadvertently highlights easy abuse of IP protection

Source: Starz, meet the Streisand Effect. Cable telly giant apologizes for demented DMCA Twitter takedown spree • The Register

Amazon Pays Employees To Chirp Happily On Twitter About Wonderful Working Conditions | Techdirt

Hoping to correct the “public perception” of poor working conditions at the company’s warehouses, Amazon executives have crafted a new “solution” to the problem. They’ve started paying some warehouse employees to create Twitter accounts and speak positively of not only their working experiences, but CEO Jeff Bezos. Under the tags of “Amazon FC Ambassadors,” these employees are broadly encouraged to respond to any criticism of Amazon with positivity and, apparently, copious use of emojis as they proudly insist they can pee any time they’d like

Source: Amazon Pays Employees To Chirp Happily On Twitter About Wonderful Working Conditions | Techdirt

Olympics fan claims Twitter killed his account after he posted Rio videos | Ars Technica


Venezuelan tweeter says short clips were legal under local laws—Twitter disagrees.

Source: Olympics fan claims Twitter killed his account after he posted Rio videos | Ars Technica

Anti-Piracy Group Reveals Personal Details of Counter-Notice Senders – TorrentFreak


In what appears to be a retaliatory move against DMCA notice archive Lumen Database, anti-piracy outfit Remove Your Media has launched a transparency report of its own. The report lists people who have sent the company DMCA counter-notices but it goes much further than Lumen by publishing their names, addresses, and telephone numbers.

Source: Anti-Piracy Group Reveals Personal Details of Counter-Notice Senders – TorrentFreak

Dad of student slain in Paris terror massacre sues Google, Twitter, Facebook for their ‘material support’ of ISIS • The Register

No tweets, no YouTube, no likes, no killings, court told

Source: Dad of student slain in Paris terror massacre sues Google, Twitter, Facebook for their ‘material support’ of ISIS • The Register

Self-Proclaimed ‘Badass Lawyer’ Loses Defamation Suit Against Parody Twitter Account | Techdirt

Another defamation lawsuit against a parody account has failed, brought on by a lawyer who should have known better but didn’t. Todd Levitt — self-proclaimed “Badass Lawyer” — has a verifiable history of bad decisions that perhaps made this sort of bogus litigation a foregone conclusion, however.Levitt tried to fire up his own reality show, which would have presumably covered such lawyeriffic behavior as singing karaoke with college students, inviting comparisons to TV’s sleaziest lawyer (Saul Goodman of Breaking Bad), creating a Top College Lawyers website solely for the purpose of awarding himself the title of “Top College Lawyer,” and somehow mistaking alleged defamation for a criminal offense.

Source: Self-Proclaimed ‘Badass Lawyer’ Loses Defamation Suit Against Parody Twitter Account | Techdirt