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@shawmakesmagic

X reached out to me, saying we violated some ToS by selling data and selling some things that bypassed API keys. We don't do that, never did, never will. They linked directly to my open source code as the reason for deletion. Code I didn't even mostly write, was hacked together from other OSS stuff They said they'd get off our back if we paid $50k/mo for the Enterprise license We pay $1k/mo for the yellow check and $200/mo for the dev license Why would an enterprise account change my ability to publish open source code? It was extortion, plain and simple, and it shouldn't be legal I don't want to be part of a system like that. It's everything I stand against. Debating whether to make this a legal issue or not

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Make it legal. Expose it. Make it public so this don’t happen again. I’m sure all the community will be on your side. The platform for “free speech” can’t be doing this.

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Did you tell them another social media pays you to post?

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IIRC you can't have commercial use with a dev licence.

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Vladyslav Dalechyn

You’ll lose the case. You used a library that cracks the frontend requests to bypass usage of the API. It violates TOS, so the ban would be reasonable. They’re pure extractors. But looking for a compromise is worthy. Best of luck to you solving this.

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Git blame shows you as the original author of the Eliza Twitter client. You did a token sale around Twitter agents that bypass the API. Seems like they may have a case.

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A lot of great resources in here, like @broganlawxyz, if you do pursue legal action

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These platforms got too big and have too much power. Sucks you’re dealing with this. More evidence that permissionless networks matter.

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Christian Montoya 🦊

They are cracking down on agentic startups. Seems anti-competitive.

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if they did it to you, chances are they’ve done it to others too

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get some crypto legal in the mix to take on at least part of it pro bono

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dang dude, this exactly why we need Farcaster to win. guessing @alon footed the bill since his accounts are back, but man, $50k/mo is a brutal shakedown.

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Ben Broad | bbroad.eth 🎩

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flick the dev 🎩📦

this is funny coming from X when they don't even pay their own cloud bills

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Oh, you're still on the "pro" plan. We now prioritize the "lux" plan. Shall we sign you up? 🤡

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@koolkheart.eth

They’re using the rules as leverage, not for security or user protection, but for rent-seeking. It’s anti-open-source

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Frey trades🎩📈

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That’s really messed up, they are trying to use social media reach as leverage over you, very mafia tactics

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Pretty sure you’ll lose a legal battle against them as their ToS states plainly not to scrape data outside of the API. Essentially, all browser agents are against their ToS. I do think this is a bit unreasonable but then you have to consider the other side.

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