Really dumb.

A group of fucking idiots hopes to start up Twitter again now that Elon has supposedly abandoned the name. They want to name the new site twitter.new instead of com.

First, reclaiming any abandoned word or trademark is destined to fail. People who try to reclaim “pre-Trump conservatism” or “classical liberalism” get bogged down in confusion. After a word has shifted you can’t take it back. You have to find new words.

Second, you can’t fight Elon. He owns most of the money and most of the government. Even if the case is technically valid, he can block it in a trillion ways.

Third, even if it was approved and Elon didn’t block it, this specific change CAN’T WORK. Browsers and other websites automatically redirect Twitter to X. When I type “National Weather Service Twitter”, the browser reliably takes me to NWS on X. If you try to specify “the non-Trump twitter” or “the anti-Elon twitter” or “the twitter for Democracy”, you aren’t likely to get reliable results.