• howrar@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    No one is owed anything, but not compensating the original owner further erodes what little trust was left in the company. You wouldn’t want to spend resources building a brand on a platform where your name can suddenly get snatched away at some billionaire’s whim.

    • anteaters@feddit.de
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      1 year ago

      Absolutely true. But apparently the headlines for this event are all “he got no money for it!”

      • MsPenguinette@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Up until it was taken from him, he would have been able to sell it for a shit tonne of money. I think it’s easy to understand why it was shitty of Twitter yo just snatch it