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KulakRevolt  1yr ago (anarchonomicon.substack.com)   1550 thread views

DEAR ELON, This is How you Make 10s of Billions Off Twitter

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An in depth proposal for how Elon can brute force the Problem of Identity to make 10s of billions off of Twitter Verifications.

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Trademark law tends to apply for business use. So Pepsi or some startup couldn't use @cocacola without infringing. Dilution is a better fit, but its central examples are still concerned with defendants making a profit. There is some case law in domain name squatting. Still, that's usually run as a business.

Twitter auctioning this would absolutely fit the mold.

A private citizen who's just using it to tweet commentary or something...maybe could get away with it? It'd be a terrible idea, and would invite a horde of lawyers to pick over one's every statement for evidence of commercial gain. And I think there's an argument that building one's own brand on social media is its own sort of product, and thus dilutes the trademark.

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