X Targets Nitter with Legal Action: X sent cease-and-desist letters
🐿️ The Squirrel's Take
X is using legal muscle to kill a tool that lets users escape its tracking and ads.
💡 Why it matters
This move could chill open-source development and set a precedent for platforms targeting privacy tools.
X has sent cease-and-desist letters to Nitter, the open source project behind privacy-friendly X frontends, demanding its instances and code repository be taken down over alleged scraping. X sends in the lawyers to shut down open source.
📡 Where we spotted it (2)
TechCrunch
X sends cease-and-desist to open-source project Nitter over alleged scraping
27d ago
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Hacker News
X sends in the lawyers to shut down open source project
27d ago
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