X expands lawsuit over advertiser ‘boycott’ to include Lego, Nestlé, Pinterest, and others | TechCrunch

[rumba@lemmy.zip]

Free the Super Mario Brothers!

[drdeadcrash@programming.dev]

That's what we just tried (over the past century), when we gave an inch they took the whole god damn country. I don't think the compromise approach will ever work.

[mongostein@lemmy.ca]

Like Tom from MySpace. Dude sold it off and now lives a carefree life pursuing photography

[taewyth@jlai.lu]

"We're barely breaking even" mate, you're supposedly in the business of online services since the late 90s, you should know that they're generally "barely breaking even"

[billwashere@lemmy.world]

Thank you. This is exactly what kind of response I was looking for. I couldn’t find any logic in the argument at all. So essentially the organization is illegal. That at least makes some sense.

[runawayfixer@lemmy.world]

The eu commission warning was officially only aimed at their internal services, it wasn't a mandate that all organisations within the eu should stop advertising on x. Though it wouldn't surprise me if it comes to a total ban in the eu, X is already under investigation for disinformation.

[buffalox@lemmy.world]

it wasn’t a mandate

Yes it was "just" a warning for EU offices, But that's still pretty remarkable, and this warning is widely publicly known, and I bet companies take notice.
But the point was also, that it's not just GARM that had problems with how things are at Xitter, it's official from EU that it's not desirable to use Xitter anymore, based on much the same reasons GARM stated. For their recommendation warning to avoid advertising on Xitter.

So it's evidence that GARM didn't just make it up to harm Xitter. The same conclusions were reached elsewhere.

Though it wouldn’t surprise me if it comes to a total ban in the eu, X is already under investigation for disinformation.

We should absolutely do that, and introduce a special Tesla Tariff of 200%, due to unfair competition because the Tesla CEO is part of the government, and it is a blatantly conflict of interest for Musk to be there and be CEO of several companies at the same time.

Carter sold his beloved Peanut Farm exactly to avoid a conflict of interest, but the American politicians, the public and the media today don't give a shit about corruption. But it's still illegal in EU.

[a_cuddly_fox@lemm.ee]

Just in time for Toyotathon

[sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works]

Nobody wants either side to actually win, we'll root for whoever is currently more messed up hoping they'll make a comeback and prolong the fight.

[sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works]

I give him about... 0% chance, with some pretty tight error bars.

The only way I see Musk eking out a win is if somehow those advertisers violated the contract terms by ending their business relationship, which would be incredibly surprising.

[sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works]

Yup: \<[xX]\> should do it, or whatever your regex engine's word break character is (sometimes \b).

[sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works]

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That's a no from me dawg.

[01189998819991197253@infosec.pub]

Or is Toyotathon in time for this? The world may never know...

[labbbb2@thelemmy.club]

Money is just an instrument for power. These are narcissists/psychopaths/power abusers/sociopaths