Comment by geocar

> The core reason to enforce trademarks is not to fluff the corporation that holds it but to let the public be confident in the name.

Nonsense. The core reason to enforce trademarks is to prove that you have it.

The yo-yo used to be a trademark too, but the problem was what else do you call it? If the "owner" of a trademark cannot defend it, they don't have it. That's how trademark law is very different than copyright (which is implicit and automatic): You can lose a trademark even if you register it and popularise it, if you can't prove that the trademark represents your actual trade.

> [I think] the trademark should hold for as long as a reasonable person can be confused by the new Twitter regardless of people's dislike towards Elon.

That's your opinion man. Thankfully the law doesn't work that way.

I don't even know whether you mean X (the new thing that was once twitter) or tweet (the new thing that claims to will-be what twitter once was)

> I may be biased because I still go to Twitter via twitter.com.

and that didn't help in the slightest, but domain squatting is very common on the Internet.