You can sue people for choosing not to do business with you?
Musk is such a fucking baby. He has no basis for this. He made major changes to the site, including a complete rebrand, and advertisers left. That's the fucking free market, and he's gonna sue?
Even funnier, he literally told advertisers to go fuck themselves lol. Now he goes whining back to Mommy for new rules for his little kingdom.
He can sue, but he won't win in any sane court.
No sane court? So it has a real chance of being decided by The Supreme Court...
They'd never even hear it. To give this lawsuit any credibility, they'd have to effectively say that businesses spending/donating money is not free speech. Which would effectively be the opposite of Citizens United.
You think they give a shit about consistency?
All that matters is the sponsorship tier - will you be flying the judge out to a vacation? Buying their mother a house? The outcome is solely dependent on your investment in the court. Justice.
Maybe they’ll say billionaires can sue as long as it’s an official act.
You can sue people for choosing not to do business with you?
You can sue people for whatever you want. But that's not what they're suing them for, if you actually read the article. They're suing for collusion.
X CEO Linda Yaccarino said in a video announcement that the lawsuit stemmed in part from evidence uncovered by the U.S. House Judiciary Committee, which she said showed a "group of companies organized a systematic illegal boycott" against X.
The Republican-led committee had a hearing last month looking at whether current laws are "sufficient to deter anticompetitive collusion in online advertising."
I don't know if that's illegal or not.
Ah yes, the pinnacle of small govt: legislating how advertisers spend their money when they won't spend that money on Republican platforms
It would make an interesting precedent. Bud Light can then sue over the boycott with the whole LGBTQ thing because some didn't buy their beer. Celebrities being cancelled can try to sue magazines for not running their articles or ads. It's going to be such an unholy mess.
Did you just not read the comment you replied to? None of those things involve any sort of collusion.
E: Lots of downvotes and zero explanations... You people just lose all sense of rationality and objectivity when Musk is in the conversation.
You can sue people for choosing not to do business with you?
Musk is such a fucking baby. He has no basis for this. He made major changes to the site, including a complete rebrand, and advertisers left. That's the fucking free market, and he's gonna sue?
Even funnier, he literally told advertisers to go fuck themselves lol. Now he goes whining back to Mommy for new rules for his little kingdom.
He can sue, but he won't win in any sane court.
No sane court? So it has a real chance of being decided by The Supreme Court...
They'd never even hear it. To give this lawsuit any credibility, they'd have to effectively say that businesses spending/donating money is not free speech. Which would effectively be the opposite of Citizens United.
You think they give a shit about consistency?
All that matters is the sponsorship tier - will you be flying the judge out to a vacation? Buying their mother a house? The outcome is solely dependent on your investment in the court. Justice.
Maybe they’ll say billionaires can sue as long as it’s an official act.
You can sue people for whatever you want. But that's not what they're suing them for, if you actually read the article. They're suing for collusion.
I don't know if that's illegal or not.
Ah yes, the pinnacle of small govt: legislating how advertisers spend their money when they won't spend that money on Republican platforms
It would make an interesting precedent. Bud Light can then sue over the boycott with the whole LGBTQ thing because some didn't buy their beer. Celebrities being cancelled can try to sue magazines for not running their articles or ads. It's going to be such an unholy mess.
Did you just not read the comment you replied to? None of those things involve any sort of collusion.
E: Lots of downvotes and zero explanations... You people just lose all sense of rationality and objectivity when Musk is in the conversation.