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.
Comment on Musk's X sues advertisers over alleged 'massive advertiser boycott' .
helenslunch@feddit.nl 1 month agoYou 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.
SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 1 month ago
helenslunch@feddit.nl 1 month ago
None of those things involve any sort of collusion.
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