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So turns out Zuckerberg owns X as a trademark in so far as it relates to social media?

Dear god, if you put this in a novel, people would not believe it.

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I refuse to believe this latest twist. Not on Irish Nazi Gold day.
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businessinsider.com/meta-holds…

This *will* be entertaining.

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I wish they kept their weird dominance games between themselves and didn't involve the rest of us
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@Sarah Brown I wonder if those two are putting on this show on purpose.. If it's attention they seek it's obviously working.
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And I thought it was going to be apple who came after him! Though I'd love it if it was the XFree86 Project, or someone unexpected like that! 😄
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It does showcase an absurdity that Meta appears to have been allowed to hold a trademark without actually using it.
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To be honest it's such a simple marque it does not surprise me that it's already in use. I would have expected some social media business to have used it by now. Trying to find even complex names that are unique is very challenging.

It's almost like Twitter was actually a valuable brand . . .

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I have a theory that Musk is actually bipolar to some degree, at least prone to mania. He seems to go from simply being a jerk (not a bipolar or autistic trait, just who he is) but not crazy, to doing utterly bizarre things for a period of time, then calm down a bit. Certainly a fascination with a letter and tearing through a business over it without regard to the consequences seems like that. If so, presumably he only manages to do it without intervention because these aren't listed companies, since surely others would get wise to what was happening,
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