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Nitter no more? X sends in the lawyers to shut down open source project

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Cease and desist letters from firm headed by free speech absolutist

X, the social media mouthpiece of free speech absolutist Elon Musk, has reportedly sent legal takedown notices to Nitter and related service XCancel over alleged data scraping and rules violations.

XCancel's home page now contains some minimal text stating: "On Monday 24th August at 8 PM EST, we received at [sic] letter from X Corp. asking to cease and desist the service XCancel."

It says the service has been halted "until further notice."

Nitter's maintainer, zedeus, adds in a separate statement : "nitter.net is offline and development has stopped for the time being. I'm seeking legal advice and won't be commenting further on the specifics for now."

Although the repository is still on GitHub, it is marked as archived and read-only, with some explanatory text added to the README.MD.

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