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Can X sue Musk for telling advertisers to go fuck themselves rather than addressing their concerns?
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Submitted 7 months ago by ForgottenFlux@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
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fluxion@lemmy.world 7 months ago
just_another_person@lemmy.world 7 months ago
He privatized and fired the board, remember? Nobody else inside to hold him accountable for being a non-stop fuckup.
Corvidae@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I could have sworn I read that Musk was a free speech absolutist. Freedom for me but not for thee?
dactylotheca@suppo.fi 7 months ago
This is the case with literally every conservative crowing about “free speech”. They want full freedom for themselves so that no matter what they say there can’t be any negative consequences or reactions, and everybody else can get fucked and die in an extermination camp
Delusional@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Nope he’s just a fascist hiding behind free speech.
TORFdot0@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Their obsession with “freeze peach” has always been a facade to their true desire which is to censor opposing viewpoints and make their viewpoints the only form of acceptable speech.
You’ll note that everything outside those bounds is “woke” and unacceptable
That_Devil_Girl@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
He certainly exercises his free speech to lie about his advocacy for free speech.
sundray@lemmus.org 7 months ago
Musk wants freedom of speech for people. But his definition of “people” is very, very narrow.
Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
I could of sworn I read that shit doesn’t actually stink, but the pile of emperic evidence has led me to believe otherwise.
prime_number_314159@lemmy.world 7 months ago
He only believes in the first 22 words of the first amendment. If you want to speak about what he has done, or (far worse) gather with others that share your beliefs to speak extra loud… straight to jail.
Snapz@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Nollij@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
When a business blames its customers for choosing to no longer be its customers, it’s a sure sign the business is declining. Depending on the severity, it’s often a sign the business is failing.
This applies here, as well as any time you see an article that millennials are killing <business/industry/etc>. It also applies when an entertainer blames their (potential) audience for not enjoying their work. See Jerry Seinfeld, Kid Rock, etc.
No one owes your business any patronage.
intensely_human@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Actually if we’re referring to twitter’s customers, Musk changed it so that the customers aren’t the advertisers any more, but the users.
It’s a really good move for the quality of the thing. It realigns twitter’s incentives to those of the users, whereas before twitter was only serving advertisers.
Nollij@sopuli.xyz 7 months ago
While I would generally agree with that statement (and gave you an up vote for it), I feel like Musk twisted that away from any normal business move.
For instance, many customers aren’t paying for premium features. Rather, they were extorted into paying, because their professional lives depend on it.
And even after all that, it’s not like it’s catering to users on any level. No one is saying that Twitter is better now. Well, no one except the Russian bots and the Nazis.
CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
Didn’t Musk tell his advertisers to leave the platform if they didn’t like Twitter anymore? Wouldn’t that alone make any tort dead upon filing?
Yeah it ties up a few billable hours but we’re not exactly talking about companies that can’t afford it.
bitchkat@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Didn’t he tell them to “go fuck yourselves”?
intensely_human@lemm.ee 7 months ago
Yeah, he said something like “You try to blackmail me? With money? Go fuck yourselves”.
mycodesucks@lemmy.world 7 months ago
So this is the laser-like focus on the future of Tesla that 56 billion dollars bought, huh?
ThatKomputerKat@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Such brilliant minds are truly beyond our understanding, clearly.
The neat thing is that I’d you have a 401k or mutual funds there’s a good chance your money voted to give this fuckwit his 56 billion. Looking at you, Vanguard.
billiam0202@lemmy.world 7 months ago
They’re afraid that Tesla’s stock price under a rational CEO will suffer a market correction and drop to where it should be. In other words, they want to keep Musk out of fear and greed.
cley_faye@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Well I heard about a guy that told the collective advertisres of the platform to “go fuck themselves”, maybe this guy should be investigated.
doeknius_gloek@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months ago
Musk wrote that X “has no choice but to file suit against the perpetrators and collaborators” behind an advertiser boycott on his platform.
So he’s going to sue himself then?
If somebody is going to try to blackmail me with advertising, blackmail me with money, go fuck yourself. Go fuck yourself. Is that clear? I hope it is.
Elon Musk, 2023
I guess it was pretty clear. What a clown.
Techpriest2@lemmy.world 7 months ago
[deleted]NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Everyone knows that only counts if you’re brown
Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 7 months ago
To that we say… Go fuck yourself?
Buffalox@lemmy.world 7 months ago
As earth is my witness, I promise I did not do any drugs before coming here.
CraigeryTheKid@lemm.ee 7 months ago
I was really hoping someone else said it already, but… is this really “Technology news”? It’s about a billionaire and advertising on his social media website.
machinin@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Social media’s impact on society is relevant to technology. I would even say it is one of the most important questions in relation to technology today. So, how an owner tries to silence criticisms of his social media site for spreading fascism seems relevant to me.
HipsterTenZero@dormi.zone 7 months ago
New law, everyone must be nice to me :(
xenomor@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Boycotts are speech. Calling for boycotts is speech. I’ve been told by every corporate leader and the Supreme Court that spending money is a form of speech. I would think that a free speech advocate would appreciate these things. Of course, like all outspoken libertarians, Musk’s positions are not well considered, consistent, nor actually libertarian when it doesn’t suit his own business or ideological* interests. This dude sucks at everything he does and his success perfectly demonstrates the fallacy of meritocracy in this society.
- usually racist
cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 months ago
everybody’s a libertarian until they lose money
Phegan@lemmy.world 7 months ago
But the free market…
Fedizen@lemmy.world 7 months ago
advertising is the only competitive market left. I guess its easier for his ego to rationalize that everyone is teaming up against him than admit he’s a moron.
c0smokram3r@midwest.social 7 months ago
Wasn’t he crying that he can’t be extorted with money or something? Fucking cry baby.
Mog_fanatic@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Dude literally told advertisers to go fuck themselves and is now like “well wait, I didn’t mean it like that” lmao
douglasg14b@lemmy.world 7 months ago
And now you know why he’s donating to the Trump campaign.
Because with the shift of power with project 2025 he can actually do this.
ChronosTriggerWarning@lemmy.world 7 months ago
If he doesn’t like being blackmailed he could always just fund Twitter himself.
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 7 months ago
What’s this? Another petty tyrant king demanding taxes from his serfs? These billionaires are fucked up in the head. They can’t just sit back, killing their livers, getting drunk and wasted on drugs on their yachts. No, they have to bend the world to their will. Even then, that isn’t enough.
e8d79@discuss.tchncs.de 7 months ago
So that is why he is donating to the Trump campaign. Best to get in the list of people he wishes to be persecuted sooner than later. Apparently it’s first come first serve.
macrocephalic@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Just as long as “serve” doesn’t mean “pay” because then it’s first come never serve.
sundray@lemmus.org 7 months ago
Meanwhile, toilets lobby to jail everyone that refuses to eat out of them.
MonkderDritte@feddit.de 7 months ago
TIL advertisement market is worth 1000 billion $.
Assuming 2 billion people owning a internet capable device, that’s 500 $ per person.
skozzii@lemmy.ca 7 months ago
Thank god this muppet wasn’t born in the US, or he would definetely be making a presidential run. Maybe he will just try and pull a Trump and disrespect the constitution and try and change rules to benefit himself personally.
nutsack@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Man I’m super glad this guy can’t run for president
afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 7 months ago
For now. You know what the Supreme Court will be paid to doml
twig@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
Lol
kokesh@lemmy.world 7 months ago
He lost his shit some time ago, but still goes even more apeshit.
Wrench@lemmy.world 7 months ago
A pretty predictable outcome of extended drug use.
autonomoususer@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Twitter are criminals who steal our computing with proprietary software.
slurpeesoforion@startrek.website 7 months ago
But if I call for slavers to get the blade, I’m somehow the bad guy.
intensely_human@lemm.ee 7 months ago
slavers? Where’s that come into this?
nondescripthandle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 months ago
Man who claims hes a libertarian wants government to punish those who don’t give him money.
just_another_person@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Oh, nonono. You simply misunderstood him, because he’s such a genius. Didn’t you hear that he thinks he literally the smartest engineer alive in this planet? Surely he’s not following suit of other nutjobs and simply trying to weaponize the judicial system in his favor because he essentially has unlimited money? This guy?? Nooooo…
r00ty@kbin.life 7 months ago
He thinks he's a lot of things. In reality, he's just a living, breathing example of Dunning-Kruger in action.
Empricorn@feddit.nl 7 months ago
He’s also now donating to Trump, who I believe absolutely will punish people for Musk, if elected.