transgender @lemmy.ml PuddingFeeling @lemmy.ca 5mo ago

Elon Musk demands users stop ‘deadnaming’ Twitter after Stephen King trolls the billionaire

www.advocate.com Elon Musk demands users stop ‘deadnaming’ Twitter after Stephen King trolls the billionaire

In a recent clash on social media, Elon Musk accused Stephen King of ‘deadnaming’ the platform formerly known as Twitter, now X.

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Companies aren't fucking people you braindead, full-of-shit, techbro asshole. (Just to be clear, this is directed at musk)
- "Companies are people too, my friend"
  
  -Mitt Romney, in an incredibly out of touch statement.
  
  "In fact, if we look at the only marker that counts - money - then corporations are even more people than people are."
  
  Mitt Romney is a real inspirational character. He got to the top of the political world with nothing but hard work, hussle and a 10,000,000$ loan from his father!
- Supreme Court: Nahfam.jpg
  
  https://www.npr.org/2014/07/28/335288388/when-did-companies-become-people-excavating-the-legal-evolution
  
  https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/corporations-people-doctrine-real-legal-concept
  
  https://www.history.com/news/14th-amendment-corporate-personhood-made-corporations-into-people
“According to the New York Times, terrorists may be paying for blue check marks on Twitter (I refuse to call it X),” King wrote.

King later followed up his stand against the name by posting the word "Twitter" several times in a message critical of Musk's "need to put your personal brand in everything.”

That sure is some savage trolling... Someone else had a much better comeback

Musk attempted to ridicule King, writing, “Stop deadnaming X… Respect our transition,” in response to King’s tweet.

Alejandra Caraballo, a transgender attorney and instructor at Harvard Law School, criticized Musk’s stance by bringing his personal life into the conversation. Caraballo responded directly to Musk’s post on X with a poignant comment: “Why? You never respected your daughter’s [transition].”
- Caraballo responded directly to Musk’s post on X with a poignant comment: “Why? You never respected your daughter’s [transition].”
  
  So fucking glad someone called PG out on his bullshit with his daughter.
  
  It's not an own to him though. Thought process goes like this.
  
  Elon deadnames daughter.
  
  Internet people mad.
  
  Someone deadnames Twitter (Oops).
  
  Internet people not mad.
  
  "Aha! Hypocrites!"
  
  Thoughts terminated.
- Don't you know companies have more rights than people.
  
  Corporations are people!
When you want to go to his site what do you type? Twitter.com no? So shut the fuck up Elon
- I had to check. x.com actually redirects to Twitter. Which makes Twitter correct. X must be the old name.
  
  Of course it is, X has always been a placeholder. Then after some serious consideration they ended up with Twitter, which is such a good name really, love it. Well done! At least thats how I remember it.
You know what, I'll deadname it even harder.
- I used to call it Twitter/X.
  
  From now on I'll just call it Twitter.
  
  Too bad I can't call it Shitter, but we'll all know that's what we mean so it's okay:-P.
  
  I think we should call it "Ten". See if we can infuriate Musk.
  
  You could call it Zwitter, it is the German word for hermaphrodite.
  
  Why not twixtter?
it's important to remember that elon musk is a 50 year old man which makes it even sadder
The site metadata refers to it as Twitter for like, those media cards Facebook Messenger and Discord make when you send a link, so I guess to stop my browser from deadnaming the site I should just stop visiting it.
- Twitter itself still refers to itself as twitter on multiple parts of the website.
- They didn't even change the URL.
  
  Lord the chaos that would ensue if they changed the URL without redirecting from twitter would be a world wide funny. Like when tinypics shut down
X now identifies as apartheid media instead of social media. The name change is important to make this distinction.
- Twitter FIFY
X is a letter and not the name of something.
- Malcolm frowns upon your shenanigans.
The shithole formerly known as Twitter.
- Formerly? You mean it's not called twitter?
  
  No he means it's dead.
  
  Like my dead rapist uncle formerly known as John.
Another right-winger who self-owned thinking they'd do a clever script flip.
- I know right!
can we just go with xitter? yes, that x is pronounced sh :D
- I always refer to it as this in text, but say twitter when speaking in person.
Why do I feel he’s deadnaming his daughter, in the rare times they speak to each other?
- When your trans daughter disowns you, and your remarks are anti trans, how the fuck are you not dead naming her.
  
  I would be so shocked to find out he wasn't.
Elon is a massive piece of shit, but this is a genuine question because I don't follow everything with him...

Has he been anti-trans?

Edit: Jesus Christ... Can't say I'm surprised.
- He directly promoted the transphobic film 'What is a Woman?'. Not sure if he's publicly done more than that, but his trans daughter doesn't want to be related to him at all and changed her name accordingly.
- Yeah he’s been pretty blatantly anti-trans. This article has more info, but the highlight here is that his daughter, who is trans, disowned him.
- This is just the first result from Google
  
  https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-shares-anti-trans-content-twitter-2023-6?op=1
  
  tl;dr, At Xhitter, he fired the people who took down promotions for a film inciting anti trans hate and then promoted the film.
- I can't say for sure because I don't give much of a shit about him, but IIRC (I read this years ago) he has a trans daughter who's cut communications with him. So probably.
- Not the worst thing, but the dumbest anti-trans thing he's done is loudly proclaim that "cis" is a slur and calling someone cis is harassment.
- Elmo refuses to acknowledge the transition of his own child.
  
  The fucks going on in Sesame Street
- For a while now, yeah.
- Very
- He deadnamed his own kid, if memory serves. One of his daughters is trans.
I like calling it X. It means I can call tweets Xcrement
- Xitter is also acceptable in my book .
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He really shouldn't get to rename it to X for two reasons:

First it shouldn't be up to the whims of one idiot, millions of people use that and it's just annoying for no good reason. Social media needs more democratic governance from the users. They shouldn't be the product, they should be shareholders.

Second it's a name that "harms" language because X is used for many other things so it increases confusion and block out other meaning. It's just a shit name that now we're forced to use because of some plutocrat.

So yeah I think people should absolutely keep using twitter no matter what. As an act of disobedience against the rule of plutocrats. Or of course, just always crosspost and refer to mastadon instead.
- Or of course, just always crosspost and promote mastadon instead.
  
  "As posted on the subpar alternative to Mastadon: X"
- name that now we're forced to use because of some plutocrat.
  
  no one is forcing you to call it X instead of Twitter
We should exclusively call it "Twitter (called X by Elon Musk)".
Hurrdedurr, I'm conservative and I make trans jokes! Me so clever!
Worlds richest man whinges about snarky comment made by a professional troll millionaire on an internet forum. The news is next...
How did Stephen King troll?
- Expertly, I would imagine.
- Read the fucking article, it's in the 2nd paragraph
  
  Thanks for being helpful!
  
  Site is behind a popup asking me to consent to using my data and I refuse to interact with it.
  
  That’s a bold suggestion.
Im breaking up with this x and moving in with mastodon.
womp womp
Just call it twitter.com
- Yep. That's a good option. Another options is to refer to it as "the platform formerly known as Twitter". (There's an Ars Technica journalist who consistently does this, without mentioning 'x'.) Another option is to just not talk about the site at all, and leave it alone to rot.
  
  Or "the platform formerly, and still, known as Twitter".
  
  It won't rot as long as its still used by politicians in the USA use for their bullshit ramblings.
I really need SK to just quit twitter, enough already
I actually like the name Quitter much better. How about that Elon ?
Man if I used elmos app I would so call it twitter, but thankfully I don't
Lmao hilarious this bloke
Now why would we stop calling Twitter, Twitter?
Come on guys, everybody knows it’s called Xitter.
Insert grandpa captain America meme
My grandmother called Kmart Kresge's until the day she died
I don't care enough to try tbh
Blackwater says hi.
I prefer TwiX, and then let the legal Battle begin...
- Nah, Twix is something I enjoy. Twitter is not

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