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

[plebcouncilman@sh.itjust.works]

How is this even a thing? Is a bank run considered collusion? If the platform no longer offers the audience I want to reach then I should be able to stop advertising on it. It just happens that the audience of may companies at once left the company. Who is even entertaining this lawsuit?

[obviouslynotbanana@lemmy.world]

I didn't know Citizens United gave companies forced speech.

[aloafofbread@lemmy.ml]

Nestle has an extremely safe, risk-averse marketing strategy. In part due to their various scandals, they try really hard to be family friendly and boring.

That said, they are not worse than other food and beverage conglomerates.

1. child labor: mars & others were also implicated. These companies were most likely unaware of the child labor being used to harvest cocoa. The way it works is there are wholesalers in Africa who buy cocoa from processing facilities who buy fresh cocoa pods from local farms. These wholesalers advertised themselves as being child-labore-free. The farms they buy from were using child labor. This is a problem with capitalism exploiting people in the global south, causing perverse incentives, and with companies having limited insight into the full depth of their supply chains.

2. water is not a human right: The nestle water exec said the quiet part out loud. But, no beverage company believes water is a human right - they just aren't stupid enough to say that on camera. If they did think it was a human right, they'd be working to ensure universal access to clean water rather than bottling it and shipping it around the world while limiting water access at their extraction points and polluting the water near their factories. Look at what coca cola is doing in mexico - rampant water pollution such that in factory towns. Coke is the only safe drink for folks because the water is contaminated. Nestle is bad, but no worse than coca cola.

3. infant formula scandal: this occurred in the 1970s and was obviously awful. Every major multinational food and beverage conglomerate has stories like this if you look hard enough - this just happens to be a fucked up series of events that got some major media play.

People online scapegoat Nestle, but continue to buy electronics and clothing made with child labor, tree nuts/soda/and other products known to be harmful to watersheds, and many other products from companies which harm people in the global south. This isn't meant to defend nestle, but to remind everyone that there is no ethical consumption under capitalism. Nestle is not anywhere close to an uniquely evil company. Not even in its own industry.

[timewarp@lemmy.world]

Musk knows no bottom, cause he is the bottom.

[timewarp@lemmy.world]

Most politicians are bought for less than a million. The guy has hundreds of billions. I imagine he can buy a few judges along the way.

[excessshiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

I'm torn about disliking this douchebag and liking that Nestlé is getting sued...

[knightonthesun@lemmy.world]

On the scale of who is fucking up the world more, I’d have to award the trophy to Leon. Certainly fuck Nestle, but won’t someone please rid us of this meddlesome billionaire?

[kokesh@lemmy.world]

He should sue everyone that left X!!

[shortstack@reddthat.com]

No better way to get people who used to voluntarily give you money to give you more money than threatening them.

[notmyoldredditname@lemmy.world]

He must think it's like the old dealership laws. Once you enter into an agreement, you can't exit.

Advertise once, advertise forever!

[random_character_a@lemmy.world]

You can also have friends if you just pay mercenaries to kidnap them from the street at gunpoint. Many many great friends at boy time.

[slaacaa@lemmy.world]

Nothing says you believe in free market competition more, than suing a another private business, trying to force them to give you money

[duke_nukem_1990@feddit.org]

In an actual court? In Trumps america?

[firewire400@lemmy.world]

You know you've fucked up when even Nestlé doesn't want to work with you...

Obligatory Fuck Nesté

[australis13@fedia.io]

In a sane world, this lawsuit would be laughed out of court.

[pseudo@jlai.lu]

What person in it right mind initiate a legal battle with Nestlé??

[j4yt33@feddit.org]

Thank you for putting it into perspective a little bit. I still won't buy Nestlé stuff but at least now I'll feel guilty buying anything else lol

[excessshiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Elon is a twat and a menace for sure, but Nestlé have employed business strategies that literally killed infants and caused malnourishment...they are a completely different league of evil.

[barsoap@lemm.ee]

Plenty actually, like former slaves from plantations which sold products to Nestle.

...it's part of the reason why Nestle is currently lobbying the EU to not dilute the supply chain act, those kinds of cases are a PITA for them, and the documentation they need to do for the supply chain act is exactly what they need to nib cases in the bud, "Here's the inspections we did, here are transcripts of anonymous interviews with random workers at the plantation", "If something slipped between the cracks we deeply regret that but we did do our due diligence, plaintiff's beef is with their ex boss, not with us".

It is absolutely more expensive to pay an army of lawyers to defend yourself than it is to pay workers proper local wages and document that. Not to mention that people who run slave plantations don't share their extra profit with Nestle.

The other reason is that they don't want smaller companies to have a competitive advantage because they're not subject to those kinds of lawsuits.They're also not at all keen on a consumer boycott from Africa.

[jeebaichow@lemmy.world]

Tbf every body needs an asshole. Except the us, which seems to have two.