He can sue, but he won’t win in any sane court.
Comment on Musk's X sues advertisers over alleged 'massive advertiser boycott' .
todd_bonzalez@lemm.ee 1 month ago
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?
ZoopZeZoop@lemmy.world 1 month ago
solomon42069@lemmy.world 1 month ago
No sane court? So it has a real chance of being decided by The Supreme Court…
halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 1 month ago
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.
eestileib@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
You think they give a shit about consistency?
jaybone@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Maybe they’ll say billionaires can sue as long as it’s an official act.
helenslunch@feddit.nl 1 month ago
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.
seaQueue@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Ah yes, the pinnacle of small govt: legislating how advertisers spend their money when they won’t spend that money on Republican platforms
SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 1 month ago
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.
helenslunch@feddit.nl 1 month ago
None of those things involve any sort of collusion.
RedditWanderer@lemmy.world 1 month ago
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.