• Jimmycakes@lemmy.world
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    This donkey about to get taught a lesson by nestle. He probably thinks he’s hot shit now but he poked the devil.

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    Can someone explain to me how you can sue over a business choosing to not spend their advertising dollars on a particular service? I mean Elon specifically told his customers to “fuck off” and now he’s suing them?!? I just don’t understand these petulant little man children being so litigious when they get their feefees hurt.

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      Easy, you pack courts with shills, you eliminate government oversight, and then you do whatever you want.

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        The actual “easy” part is that you can sue anyone for pretty much anything. Suing is entirely different from winning the case.

        Why they think they have a chance of winning is the weirder question, especially when Musk publically told the advertisers to go fuck themselves.

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          Paying a couple of five or six figure sums to continue advertising on X, versus paying millions to fight a protracted legal battle - I know which option the shareholders of those companies will be pushing for.

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          Don’t have to win, just drag the case out, causing both sides to spend fortunes on legal fees. Guess who has the most money.

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            X has an estimated market cap of $9.4 billion, whereas Nestlé has a market cap of $219 billion. That’s a corporate superpower with no qualms about monopolizing freshwater or bait- & switching breast milk formula from babies. And it’s just one of the companies they’re taking on, with a shitty case to boot. So yeah… if I was Elon I would keep my head down.

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      Instead of someone explaining, you could always read the article linked and see for yourself.

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      The object of the lawsuit is to get these deep pocketed corporations to settle for millions. If the companies aren’t able to get the suits dismissed, they will settle. They don’t want to get on the wrong side of the current administration and it’s less costly than a years long legal battle.

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    Hey Elmo, you told the advertisers to “go fuck yourself” in no uncertain terms, even repeating yourself for dramatic effect.

    Hey I’ve got an idea Elmo. Go fuck yourself.

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    Anyone getting sued by him should just demand a jury trial. No way you’ll get enough Americans to side with musk on anything.

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    I suppose after he gets done there he will come after people like me who have blocked every musk related business from my network.

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    How dare your company not advertise on my company cause I’m a racist wanna be nazi twat.

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    Can you please tag this elon, so that our spam filters work?

    It’s not practical to censor “x”

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    Are boycotts illegal? In this case I doubt there was an organized attempt, just some companies making individual business decisions. But even if Twitter can prove there was a boycott, is there a law against that?

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      Boycotts are absolutely legal, you are completely entitled to decide who you don’t want to do business with. However, illegality is no longer required for the justice system to be weaponized against you, and President Musk just wants to make an example to others who might not want to do business with an actual Nazi.

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      The law doesn’t matter. With Musk’s position in the government this will basically end up as extortion: Settle or I’ll make things difficult for you.

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      a certain amount of business collusion can be considered a cartel (other kind) and essentially monopolistic… but that’s usually price fixing… i don’t see how they could be compelled to advertise on a nazi platform.
      also, i respect these companies much more than any company that would, and consider this lawsuit great advertising
      but then again, the right trump appointed federal judge makes meaning pointless in law…