Elon Musk’s X Corp. filed a limited objection Monday against the sale or transfer of any X accounts handled by Alex Jones or his media platform, Infowars, in a bid to prevent The Onion from acquiring them.
X Corp.’s legal filing outlines their objections to transferring the Infowars X account, the Banned.Video X account, The War Room X account, the Alex Jones X Account and any other accounts that Free Speech Systems (FSS), a company owned by Jones, or Jones himself manages on the platform. The document also says that while account holders own the content they produce, the underlying services—including websites, applications, and other tools—are solely the property of X Corp.
“While X Corp. has granted account holders, such as Jones and FSS, a license to use the Services, such license is non-assignable, both under the terms of the [terms of service] and applicable…