How can he? It was a sale. Is he going to authorize everything?
For example, if a “factory and everything in it” is sold in a bankruptcy auction, the buyer doesn’t get the vending machines owned by the 3rd party caterer. The vending machines are in possession of the debtor, but not owned by him. So the bankruptcy court can’t transfer them.
X is arguing that users do not own their handles, so X cannot be compelled to transfer a handle from one user to another as part of a bankruptcy auction.
A company can be sold including its assets (its X account), but not a personal account - which Jones' account is.
@InfoWars and @AlexJones are different issues entirely.
The argument would be that a company's X account is not one of its assets -- it is one of X's.
I don't think that means X is required to transfer the handle but I wonder if that would open them up to further lawsuits
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/judge-review-alex-jones-attempt-block-infowars-sale-onion-rcna181377But also Alex Jones is a horrible human and his platform being sold to pay the debts the courts awarded the families he harmed is poetic justice Kendrick Lamar couldn’t have written better than. Here’s hoping the Onion gets the assets and can satirize Jones for ever and ever as the putz that he is.
Also the sale was blocked is the last I heard due to improper sale.
Jones is alleging that there was fraud and collusion between the Sandy Hook parents/victims and the executor of the sale. The judge will make a decision in a couple of weeks. There are two things being discussed with the judge—Jones’ allegations and a request from the appointee to approve the sale, and the judge has decided to handle both things in a single session.
Jones is trying to delay thing, and spouting a lot of nonsense in the process as usual.
https://apnews.com/article/alex-jones-infowars-auction-onion...
Yikes.