Facebook/Meta
Facebook/Meta
If it makes you feel better, the lawyers who filed this case "for us" will be making huge amounts of money.
Someone needs to file a class action suit against all lawyers who have ever filed a class action suit.
Someone needs to file a class action suit against all lawyers who have ever filed a class action suit.
“Every record been destroyed or falsified, books rewritten, pictures repainted, statues, street building renamed, every date altered. The process is continuing day by day. History stops. Nothing exists except endless present in which the Party is right.”
Facebook/Meta
Threads gets to 70M users in two days.
Already has rate limits:
And is such a blatant rip off of Twitter, including using many former Twitter employees, that a lawsuit is already being discussed.
Already has rate limits:
And is such a blatant rip off of Twitter, including using many former Twitter employees, that a lawsuit is already being discussed.
“Every record been destroyed or falsified, books rewritten, pictures repainted, statues, street building renamed, every date altered. The process is continuing day by day. History stops. Nothing exists except endless present in which the Party is right.”
Facebook/Meta
Or is it?On Threads, Meta spokesperson Andy Stone posted that "no one on the Threads engineering team is a former Twitter employee - that's just not a thing".
Reality:
Twitter: "We censor everything China tells us to censor"
It's not me, it's someone else.
Facebook/Meta
I highly doubt Meta didn't grab anyone from Twitter, although even if they didn't, Threads is such a copy of Twitter, a lawsuit will be interesting either way.
“Every record been destroyed or falsified, books rewritten, pictures repainted, statues, street building renamed, every date altered. The process is continuing day by day. History stops. Nothing exists except endless present in which the Party is right.”
Facebook/Meta
Can't copyright ideas. I doubt there's much/anything here to sue about.
It's not me, it's someone else.
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Considering it operates almost exactly like Twitter, I'm sure there's something there. However, that's for lawyers to figure out. I wonder if the code is similar?
“Every record been destroyed or falsified, books rewritten, pictures repainted, statues, street building renamed, every date altered. The process is continuing day by day. History stops. Nothing exists except endless present in which the Party is right.”
Facebook/Meta
As long as the code wasn't actually stolen, it can be the EXACT same. Independent creation is fine.
It's not me, it's someone else.
Facebook/Meta
So different from music/movie/book/art laws?
“Every record been destroyed or falsified, books rewritten, pictures repainted, statues, street building renamed, every date altered. The process is continuing day by day. History stops. Nothing exists except endless present in which the Party is right.”
Facebook/Meta
Independent creation is a legit defense in ALL areas of copyright defense. I think that was a part of the defense that Ed Sheeran used.
It's not me, it's someone else.
Facebook/Meta
Wasn't it the same defense of several other people the Gaye family sued, and all of whom lost?
This part of the law seems so subjective.
“Every record been destroyed or falsified, books rewritten, pictures repainted, statues, street building renamed, every date altered. The process is continuing day by day. History stops. Nothing exists except endless present in which the Party is right.”
Facebook/Meta
Exactly. I guess that's why it will be important if key members of the design team are ex-Twitter folks.
“Every record been destroyed or falsified, books rewritten, pictures repainted, statues, street building renamed, every date altered. The process is continuing day by day. History stops. Nothing exists except endless present in which the Party is right.”
Facebook/Meta
Sounds like a lawsuit won't be necessary...
Lost half their active users in a single week.
ZDNet opinion piece on the huge drop in numbers.
Removing your Threads account will delete your entire Instagram account.
I'm guessing that's pissing people off.
“Every record been destroyed or falsified, books rewritten, pictures repainted, statues, street building renamed, every date altered. The process is continuing day by day. History stops. Nothing exists except endless present in which the Party is right.”
Facebook/Meta
I knew it was just a fashion thing for five minutes. "OMG I made a difference cuz I made an account. Anyway ...."
"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid."
Facebook/Meta
Meta toying with the idea of paid accounts in the EU "to avoid ads".
I think by 2035 the majority of features on the largest social media platforms will be behind paywalls.
I think by 2035 the majority of features on the largest social media platforms will be behind paywalls.
“Every record been destroyed or falsified, books rewritten, pictures repainted, statues, street building renamed, every date altered. The process is continuing day by day. History stops. Nothing exists except endless present in which the Party is right.”
Facebook/Meta
Interestinger, having to supply a valid form of payment could be how we implement my much needed "identity bit" project in order to eliminate anonymity on the Internet, which every intelligent person knows we badly need.
"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid."
Facebook/Meta
I was exploring internet medicine the other day about some meds... and they were ready to give me stuff even though i used completely fake information. There was no validation.
Although, I assume they would have wanted a real form of payment.
It's not me, it's someone else.
Facebook/Meta
Not necessarily. Any form would have been accepted, yours or not.
"Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid."
Facebook/Meta
WSJ Op-Ed writer agrees with Gordon on the identity bit.
I’ve previously spoken out against the idea. A decade ago, as a steering committee member of the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace and the Identity Ecosystem Steering Group, I argued against a proposed national identity system as a violation of privacy.
But I’ve changed my mind, in part because privacy as we once knew it no longer exists. Social-media platforms, along with other Big Tech companies such as Google, Apple and Microsoft, collect and store vast repositories of our data, including emails, text messages, call logs, photos, documents, calendars, friend lists, locations, finances—you name it. Much of this data is already available to law enforcement and government officials. The Edward Snowden revelations in 2013 exposed our government’s mass surveillance practices, not only of suspected terrorists and lawbreakers but also of millions of private individuals.
Thanks to the Cambridge Analytica breach in 2018, it is estimated that 5,000 data points on every U.S. voter are already circulating online. But tracing someone’s identity doesn’t require nearly that many data points. Massachusetts Institute of Technology research on credit-card purchases has shown that it takes four basic data points on transaction dates and locations to identify 90% of people in a pool of 1.1 million people.
It's not me, it's someone else.