Originally published at: Australian judge orders X to pay Twitter's CSAM fine - Boing Boing
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Sorry, Elon. The “Nyah-nyah, I changed my name so the guy who did the bad stuff doesn’t exist anymore!” defense doesn’t necessarily work in a country where John Roberts isn’t chief justice.
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Cue Musk doing Australia a favor by shutting down Xitter in 3…2…1…
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The “twitter’s liabilities don’t exist because we rebranded it” take seems like a freeman-on-the-land tier argument that can still afford a corporate lawyer.
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As a graduate with a degree in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics (CSAM), my dislike of this alternate use of the acronym falls somewhere in the middle of the broad spectrum between my love for the ruling and hate of the abusive content.
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But it ignores a universal constant in corporations laws in the world.
A successor in interests is liable for everything the predecessor owed.
People have been failing at the “we changed our name” argument ever since the first corporations were created.
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Could be worse. You could be a graduate of Springfield Heights Institute of Technology
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