wtf is musk even expecting to gain here
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i wounder if he will actually get a court to order that every person in the world owes him money.
cause that seems to be what he is working towards.
If he does, they will lose ALL advertising
"I ruined my business by supporting Nazis and it's all your fault!"
"I'm in a government that condones - if not encourages - businesses from rejecting customers based on their own ideology, but don't do it to me!"
Last year he told everybody to go fuck themselves. Now he's crying. If there is somebody who needs to be deported, is it his narcistic, selfish, apartheid's ass.
tHe mArKeT WiLl ReGuLaTe ItSeLf!
This donkey about to get taught a lesson by nestle. He probably thinks he's hot shit now but he poked the devil.
I'm surprised they haven't killed his children already.
They needn't to do so. His children are dead to him.
Nazi vs Nestle. Always win for us.
let them fight.jpg
YOU ARE NOT ENTITLED TO OTHER COMPANIES’ MONEY
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.
Here's the claim from the article:
The complaint alleges that the WFA “organized an advertiser boycott of Twitter through GARM, with the goal of coercing Twitter to comply with the GARM Brand Safety Standards to the satisfaction of GARM.” And it claims that these efforts succeeded in harming Twitter/X, with “at least” 18 GARM-affiliated advertisers stopping their purchase of ads on Twitter between November and December 2022, and other advertisers “substantially” reducing their spending.
Easy, you pack courts with shills, you eliminate government oversight, and then you do whatever you want.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I hate this timeline so much.
Maybe it'll turn around after the Bell protests
You mean the Bell Riots that started September 1, 2024? I'm not sure how to tell you this, but that didn't happen on schedule.
Sure thing! I found an article that explains it better than I could:
Oh man. I wish OP would have posted this first.
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.
It's also a strong signal to future boycotters.
Instead of someone explaining, you could always read the article linked and see for yourself.
I did read the article.
For example how does this:
In fact, the lawsuit claims that ad prices on X “remain well below those charged by X’s closest competitors in the social media advertising market,” so “by refraining from purchasing advertising from X, boycotting advertisers are forgoing a valuable opportunity to purchase low-priced advertising inventory on a platform with brand safety that meets or exceeds industry standards.”
force someone or some company to spend their advertising dollars there. If a company spending ad money doesn’t like what the ad service represents, in this case Elon is a douchebag and we’ll just ignore the fact that he gave a Nazi salute at the inauguration, than they aren’t required to use them as a service, illegal boycott or not, which I don’t even believe is a thing.
Here’s a hyperbolic argument. Let’s just say for example we have two grocery stores. One promotes pedophilia and the other does not. The pedo grocery store has prices that are let’s say half of what the other grocery store is, because I don’t know fucking kids makes you feel generous. A bunch of people get together and decide they don’t wanna shop at NAMBLAmart. Is NAMBLAmart allow to sue me because I didn’t shop there?
Because unless I’m missing something, that’s pretty much the argument.
You can sue for anything.
Suing companies for not advertising on a platform For Nazis, By Nazis™. 🤡
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.
He’s levying tithes.
I suppose after he gets done there he will come after people like me who have blocked every musk related business from my network.
Yes, sue literally every company in America, nothing could possibly go wrong.
Lego is based in Denmark and nestle is in Switzerland.
Wait those cunts are Swiss?
I suddenly like the Swiss a tiny bit less.
Anyone getting sued by him should just demand a jury trial. No way you'll get enough Americans to side with musk on anything.
How dare your company not advertise on my company cause I’m a racist wanna be nazi twat.
Can you please tag this elon, so that our spam filters work?
It's not practical to censor "x"
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