>Be X Corp>See FOSS front-end letting people use X (formerly Twitter) without ads or tracking>Send cease and desist letter to the project, claim they're violating the Texas Harmful Access by Computer Act and Lanham Act>Send cease and desist letters to individual instances, and even entirely unrelated sites like TwitterWebViewer that just embed X posts>They all comply because they don't want to be sued>Immediately, a dozen alternate instances pop up>Multiple people start forks>None of them will comply with cease and desist letters, some of them are hosted through TOR>Two weeks later, it turns out that the cease and desist wasn't even legally valid in the first place>All that's happened is the amount of instances has tripled, and the project has recieved renewed attention and tons of donationsThank you, Elon
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>>109745909My thread is higher effort thoughbeit
>>109745896This shouldn’t be allowed. I hope they’re forced to pay billions to Elon
Great, I like not having to switch to another instance.I wonder if a lawsuit would actually hold up, boomer (and older) judges being notoriously unable to conceptualize modern technology.
>>109745896there were already like a dozen nitter clones within the week but good to see its back I guess.
Imagine making a platform so shit people are willing to use the darknet to avoid it.
>>109745896I find it hilarious that a billionaire who's banged a string of hot Hollywood bimbos can still seem like such a total fucking loser. No wonder /pol/tards relate to him.
>>109746096let me guess. You coincidentally ALSO think Elon is a Nazi and should give all of his money to brokies like you, right? What are the odds!
>>109746112>No wonder /pol/tards relate to him.Lol no they hate him too
>>109746034I checked it at the time and it definitely seemed like one of those things where they wouldn't expect to win, but they expect that the defendant wouldn't be willing to put up the money for a defence or be willing the like 20% risk that it really is deemed illegal.The Texas Harmful Access by Computer Act is huge but mostly bans really obvious things like election tampering or ransomware. You could argue that scraping a website without using their API is illegal, and maybe it is, but that would require a very strong interpretation of the THACA, and it goes without saying that X Corp probably doesn't want a Texas judge setting precedent that unauthorized web scraping is a serious cyber crime, given that's largely how they get training data for based Grok. The Lanham Act is the main act in the US establishing trademark law, and I don't think there's a serious argument to be made that "Nitter" could be confused for "X". Even if that was the case, they could just change their name.
>>109746122Not him but I just think Elon is a retard and someone who should never be trusted to name anything ever.Also I he fucked up twitter so badly I get insta banned every time I create a new account.Only way to avoid that is linking to a phone which I'm not going to do.
>>109745896Is Elon actually smart bros? He loves us?His jeet army is chaotic good?
>>109745896maybe his army of jeet lawyers is retarded
I also hate Twitter, but I just don’t read it. I don’t understand the point of this.
>>109746112Remember the emails where he was practically begging Big Jeff so he can party with him, and Epstein was like “nahh man we good” Money truly can’t unlame you
>>109747411Tons of discourse is posted there, it's fairly useful to keep up, even if you are locked behind the Vow of Eternal Silence of Nitter.>>109746286Not just that, but Nitter clearly is not "scraping", in the sense of mass collection and retention of posts, but end usage for browsing as a normal user would. At least the public instances that Xitter C&D'd. All it does is bypass the account requirement.>>109746096That's not what the darknet is. If you can access it from a normal web browser using a URL, it's not the darknet.
>>109747974>If you can access it from a normal web browser using a URL, it's not the darknet.Usually the criteria is can you get to it from a search engine. If for any reason the site isn't indexed and can only be accessed via friend-to-friend networks or the cozy web, it's the dark net.
>>109747997...cozy web?Anyways, that might make Nitter *less* darkweb than Xitter at this point.
>>109746079https://codeberg.org/mv12star/shitter/wiki/Instances
>>109745896Based. Elon is a gigafaggot.
>>109746122why are you defending a guy that wants to import a billion jeets? are you a jeet?
elon will just pay to ddos them 24/7
>>109745896Based. Fuck elong.Nitter creator deserves to be added to the list of honored based techies.List of based /g/https://drewdevault.com/weird-guys/
>>109748940remember when we found your gelbooru account, drew?
>>109748685>billionyeah, I think that’s wrong.Elon wants to import smart people. A country with a billion people has tens of millions of 140+ IQ people. You either have them wasting away in retard land or working in the U.S. What, are you afraid that a high IQ Indian man will take your woman? The dumb ones shit everywhere but not the smart ones. So what’s the problem exactly..?
>>109748953Its a good list though. Literally everyone I like and all the projects I think are highly underfunded.
>>109748960Yep ur indian
>>109749341nope, I’m a white woman, and your fear of importing high IQ Indian men gave me the ick because it means you’re so insecure you’d rather lose out on top talent just to avoid the small chance of… your crush preferring an Indian guy? Or taking your job? I mean, that’s just a skill issue dude
>>109748960>Elon wants to import smart people. A country with a billion people has tens of millions of 140+ IQ people. No it doesn't. Would you mind explaining to us the law of the large numbers?
>>109749394Why does all the "top talent" go to work jobs for 60k at WITCH companies?
>>109745909Why are you Indian?
>>109748940>drewdevaultFuck off already, you slimy rat fuck.
>>109749557What have you got against Drew? I read his blog sometimes.
>>109749394blue board means you cant post tits so you gotta gtfo
>>109746096kek
>>109746096More like a bunch of drug addicts when their dealer takes a vacation for a fortnight.I've actually found this whole episode immensely entertaining.
>>109745896If twitter wasn't so annoying forcing an account just to see posts with sound I would maybe have a bit of sympathy, but no, they're retarded. They want the login at all costs.
>>109750251They want every user to dox themselves too
The funny part is if you ask an AI agent like claude to follow someone on X, it will try to use nitter.
>>109746096>AvoidIf it where that shit people wouldnt go to these length to just view its content
>>109745896Elon suicide stream when?
>>109749394>high IQ >Indian menPick one
Traffic probably dropped off steeply lol
>>109748960>A country with a billion people has tens of millions of 140+ IQ people. The chud cannot handle this fact.>>109749394But indians have, to put it that way, low opinions of women's rights.>>109748940When does he admit to being a pedo?
>>109749506>>109749514Why were these questions never addressed?
>>109751075I'm not a jeet. It's simply a fact that out of billions, there are a couple of highly intelligent indians, and those are the ones which Musk wants to add to the US population.
>>109751117Then why do the majority of the Indian visa seekers end up at WITCH companies?
>>109751125>nooooo I hate factsGo live in your dream world where you can afford eggs.>>109751126Dunno, ask the cucks who import indian?
>>109751169She's more likely to get raped by a low IQ women hating chud like yourself, lmao.
>>109751175Like most things you believe, reality is the exact opposite.
>>109751250What is this? Hindu for "thank you, drive thru"?
>>109751248>no uIt's easy to see that someone as women hating as you would end up raping a woman.
>>109751260Probably incoherent rage bait for retards who just gor fired and never had a GF.They spend their day on 4chan, making posts describing indians playing with shit.
>>109745896It's pathetic too since nitter is objectively superior frontend than X's. Elon should buy the dev out.
>>109751136>Dunno, ask the cucks who import indian?So the other Indians? Because that is how the abuse the LMIA system in Canada...
>>109751273>Probably incoherent rage bait for retards who just gor fired and never had a GFBut you are hired and have a GF. Yet you spend your time with the folks who are opposite of this?
>>109745924>thoughbeitThis isn't a word, stop saying it in every thread, faggot
>>109745896What's the point of this, can't you just ublock origin and cosmetic filter on the normal site? I get that it's a hassle but It seems you can't follow people and theres no algorithm to bring me hatsune miku pictures every minute
>>109751336It's sharty lingo. If you don't know what it means, it means he's a faggot.
>>109751355Wanna know what is funny. There is only 1 single place I see ads on. And the ads I see on it, are never within my wheelhouse. It is strange. You'd think if all these systems were as good as they claim. It'd be able to actually target me...
>>109751355You can't see every post unless your account is age verified now, presumably these external sites bypasses that.
>>109751380The only use of twxttxr is for porn I guess, I haven't been on there in a long time, it's mostly recycled garbage and blatant propaganda getting posted
>>109751389X will also just not let you view reply chains, search, or see the most recent posts from an account unless you log in. It's genuinely unusable without an account and I don't want an account.
>>109751380ohh, right i forgot about that even though i-m the most affected, i forgot because i rarely have porn on my timeline but honestly that warning plagues regular SFW artists too and it-s an unjust piece of shit
>>109751408oh and you can also use an extension to download the image that is being censored even if you can-t see the image, it-s a terrible thing they added
>>109751263>yes im an idiot leftist (but i repeat myself)We know.
>>109751510Why am I a leftist for pointing out a fact?Go cry in a corner.
>>109747411>I don’t understand the point of this.It's a frontend intended for privacy. Because multiple people are using the same instance of Nitter, it makes fingerprinting and tracking much more difficult for X.You should be using anonymizing frontends where possible for scummy websites such as X, or for the internet in general. This is why archive.is exists, why 4get exists, etc.
>>109748940grown ass man btw
>>109751556>facts are whatever dumb insult i parrotAnd then one day, for no reason at all...
>>109752310Seriously, that's your come back? You, a parrot who can only go "muh leftists"?You didn't even deny that you hate women lmao
>>109752310>And then one day, for no reason at all...rightoids became disliked by non-retards.
>>109746096opening twitter links on a phone is literally cancer >news article references twitter>click it>it opens in app browser>x forces external browser>video plays without sound>click on it >it opens the appstore to download the appi hate it
>>109749557Regardless, its a good list of based tech. Someone clever should mirror it and rewrite the insults into compliments. The thing I like about it, is its written by an opposition so it effectively sets a standard.
>>109745896When you counteract a Cease & Desist letter by sending yourself a Continue & Persist letter.
>Two weeks later, it turns out that the cease and desist wasn't even legally valid in the first placehow can this be true? someone makes a website and his license and legal page makes it clear how you can and can't use it, but it doesn't matter, people can just ignore it? why can't AI companies do all the scraping they want then? or me dossing any website i want
>>109745896I just realized that nitter is written in Nim. The only real usecase for a memlang so far.
>>109752837>someone makes a website and his license and legal page makes it clear how you can and can't use it, but it doesn't matter, people can just ignore it? us courts have repeatedly found that scraping publicly available information isn't intrusion
>>109745896BASED
>>109752784Never fucking reply to me again.
>>109745896>>Two weeks later, it turns out that the cease and desist wasn't even legally valid in the first placePlease look up what a cease and desist is.
>>109752837>someone makes a billboard and his license and legal footnotes makes it clear you cannot write down and repeat aloud what's writen on it>why can't AI companies do all the scraping they want thenthat's the problem: they can, and do.what matters is how they use that info later.
>>109748960>>109749394kys jeet
>>109753030OK.
>>109752343>>109752646You're brown and/or you're female. Either way, we've obviously given you too many rights, and because of your behaviour, you're now going to start losing them.
>>109752837>why can't AI companies do all the scraping they want then?lol, where have you been for the past 6 years? you basically can't put up a website anymore without getting so many ai scrapers hitting you that it's essentially a ddos attack
>>109746122>You coincidentally ALSO think Elon is a NaziSo, what is he then?And why does he care so much about forcing people to log in to use twitter?
>>109745896I'm coming around to email more and more lately. The problem is, nobody wants to put an email on their profile. It's fucking stupid that we have to tie everything to an email address in the first place, making it a tasty target for hackers, but what can you do?Now if you find someone you want to tell something, you HAVE to create an account yourself, since the platforms discourage any outside communication.
>>109751063>chud
>>109756824look at https://chiptune.app for example>feedback formlink to X>login/sign uplogin with google ONLYthis is a man that has forsaken his freedom for convenience
>>109745896>>Two weeks later, it turns out that the cease and desist wasn't even legally valid in the first placeAgainst Zedeus it wasn't. Against the US hosted instances it is. The DMCA guards against software implementations designed to circumvent limitations. Nitter using bot created accounts is breaking the API limitations per account Twitter has set. The DMA in the EU covers proxying but I highly doubt it covers that issue.
>>109757121Not covering bouncing is equivalent to not covering proxying.
