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by SilverElfin 167 days ago
Couldn’t that be a theft of someone’s photo or art? Or does X give themselves rights to all that?
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Almost everywhere that accepts user generated content has T&C along the lines of "you grant us a perpetual license to use, store, transform, and share whatever you post" just so make sure nobody sues for the normal boring use of showing it to other people.

That phrasing probably covers this use, too.