Musk’s X sues Unilever, Mars and CVS over ‘massive advertiser boycott’
Musk’s X sues Unilever, Mars and CVS over ‘massive advertiser boycott’
X said the companies worked against their economic self-interests in a conspiracy violating US antitrust law
I can't believe this is real holy shit
In a statement on Tuesday about the lawsuit, X’s chief executive, Linda Yaccarino, said: “People are hurt when the marketplace of ideas is constricted. No small group of people should monopolize what gets monetized.”
begging the judicial system to force firms to buy your services, this is the biggest brain of modern capitalism
Elon to advertisers, 2023: "go fuck yourself"
Elon to advertisers, 2024: :i-spil-my-jice: mods mods make them come back
Early frontrunner for billionaire tantrum of the year 2024
He's the greatest to ever do it. The Michael Phelps of billionaire ass-showing.
I’m gonna sue Walmart for not paying me… no your Honor, I have never been an employee of Walmart.
It would be the other way around. They'd be suing you for shopping at their competitiors and thereby acting against your economic self-interest (as determined by Walmart.)
Literally a plan that would be dreamed up by Ricky from Trailer Park Boys.
The difference is that Ricky would actually be able to talk the judge into agreeing with him:
Your honour, I'm moving the court to sentence Mr. Lahey to pay me like a million dollars for being a drunk bastard and for not buying weed from me anymore. He used to buy all his weed from me but now that he's back on the liquor he doesn't smoke weed any more and that is fucked up. Your honour, I try to run a small business and now this drunk trailer park supervisor is violating all my human amendment charters.
The LegalEagle about this is going to rip ass lmao.
Musk relocates X to Tel Aviv and calls everyone that stops advertising on it anti-Semitic
This is why Iran is waiting to retaliate. Trust the plan
Patriots are in control
yavash yavash
I actually had a thought about how this could be a precedent that affects BDS. If Musk loses, maybe it can be used to invalidate laws against BDS too.
I don't see how this is a meaningfully different argument than saying it's illegal to not buy things from "Israel", and US courts seem to be fine with that
They are discriminating against an african entrepreneur
I hope he tries to use that as precedence in the court cases, it would be so funny.
It's meaningfully different in the US at least because these corporations are some of the most powerful on earth. Musk's companies are small beans in comparison because market cap is meaningless compared to actual revenue. He is fucking around with corporations that literally overthrow governments, kill disloyal people, and fund private militaries to advance their interests. The kind of corporations that US federal judges rubber-stamp even criminal rulings for.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_companies_by_revenue
Because there’s a misconception about what BDS laws usually are. You as a consumer can boycott Israel. You can call for others to boycott Israel and do so as a group. You can own a business and refuse to buy things from Israel. And even the most reactionary court will take your side if a law was passed that did otherwise.
What most BDS laws do is to say if you are a government entity or do any business with the government, you cannot formally boycott Israeli products. Functionally this prevents a lot of businesses from boycotting Israel and critically, state universities too.
Suing the other neighborhood kids for not hanging out in my treehouse
He also said he's going to explore whether they're criminally liable under RICO.
This dude is actually going to anger other rich people for going after 'their' companies
He might actually start getting actively screwed by his compatriots now lol
If the CEO of CVS got locked up for not advertising on X the everything website something would have def happened.
We're locked in to an extremely funny outcome here no matter which way it goes.
He should challenge them to a fight
I'm going to make these advertisers pay me money.
Uh, sir, that's called "extortion".
No, it's called "business smarts" you're fired.
As soon as a lib talks about "the marketplace of ideas" you can safetly ignore anything they say because they're deeply unserious.
Now I'm convinced Musk really is a genius. To be capable of that kind of mental gymnastics he has to be.
I wonder if Elon pressured his lawyers to do this or if his lawyers are grifting him for hours or if they’re mutually stupid and both thought this was smart
Hoping he rolls a nat 1 on the Law check and accidentally destroys the ad industry.
Free speech for me but not for thee
They should countersue for ownership of Twitter. Then dissolve it if they win. Burn the office down and melt all the servers.
This place is not a place of honor…no highly esteemed deed is commemorated here…nothing valued is here.
What is here was dangerous and repulsive to us. This message is a warning about danger.
Fuck everyone who creates and perpetuates this removed
lol, oh hell yeah Nationalize the Marketplace of Ideas
It’d be funny if industry and trade associations ruled as anticompetitive under antitrust laws