Trump's Broken Social Media Venture Is Valued At Billions Of Dollars And Its Breaking Experts' Brains

Trump's Broken Social Media Venture Is Valued At Billions Of Dollars And Its Breaking Experts' Brains

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https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20211022/22315647800/trumps-broken-social-media-venture-is-valued-billions-dollars-breaking-experts-brains.shtml

Last week we wrote a bit about Trump's new planned social media website, Truth Social (which forbids too many capital letters, so I will oblige by not capitalizing the entire "Truth" part of the name, as Trump's branding apparently prefers). We mostly focused on the ridiculous terms of service (forbidding capital letters among other things), and the fact that it was already kicking people off the system (who only got on the system because Trump's coders apparently failed to properly secure the site pre-launch). We also talked briefly about how it appeared to be a reskin of Mastodon, and that's potentially an interesting legal issue, because it certainly appears to be violating the AGPLv3 license for Mastodon.

But, perhaps a more interesting story right now... is how the grift behind all of this is combining the whole Gamestonk craze and the NFT craze... and the SPAC craze to make absolutely no sense at all.

Trump's Broken Social Media Venture Is Valued At Billions Of Dollars And Its Breaking Experts' Brains

Oct 25, 2021, 10:39pm UTC
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20211022/22315647800/trumps-broken-social-media-venture-is-valued-billions-dollars-breaking-experts-brains.shtml > Last week we wrote a bit about Trump's new planned social media website, Truth Social (which forbids too many capital letters, so I will oblige by not capitalizing the entire "Truth" part of the name, as Trump's branding apparently prefers). We mostly focused on the ridiculous terms of service (forbidding capital letters among other things), and the fact that it was already kicking people off the system (who only got on the system because Trump's coders apparently failed to properly secure the site pre-launch). We also talked briefly about how it appeared to be a reskin of Mastodon, and that's potentially an interesting legal issue, because it certainly appears to be violating the AGPLv3 license for Mastodon. > But, perhaps a more interesting story right now... is how the grift behind all of this is combining the whole Gamestonk craze and the NFT craze... and the SPAC craze to make absolutely no sense at all.