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

[vash63@lemmy.world]

"^X .*$"

[hawlsera@lemm.ee]

Yes, sue literally every company in America, nothing could possibly go wrong.

[teft@lemmy.world]

Sounds like it’s time for people to learn regex.

[rusticus@lemm.ee]

Hey Elmo, you told the advertisers to “go fuck yourself” in no uncertain terms, even repeating yourself for dramatic effect.

Hey I’ve got an idea Elmo. Go fuck yourself.

[danc4498@lemmy.world]

Less of a boycott and more of a logical business decision.

[spooky2092@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

Yeah, like the creator of my app for one.

[spooky2092@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

The irony of using one fascist billionaires platform to organize against another fascist billionaire and his platform, but also the government.

[billwashere@lemmy.world]

Can someone explain to me how you can sue over a business choosing to not spend their advertising dollars on a particular service? I mean Elon specifically told his customers to “fuck off” and now he’s suing them?!? I just don’t understand these petulant little man children being so litigious when they get their feefees hurt.

[billwashere@lemmy.world]

Yeah I know. It’s how I got (well forced) to see this story as well. I mean this douchebag is so rage inducing how could you NOT filter him.

[technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Are boycotts illegal?

Yes but it depends on the boycott.

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[technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

The speech is free. Xitter could advertise for these companies for free. It's the money that's being forced.

[billwashere@lemmy.world]

Yeah I had this thought as well. How I would love to be able to create filters based on RegExs.

Something like:
(?<!\w)X(?!\w)
I think that might work.

[dozzi92@lemmy.world]

Easy, you pack courts with shills, you eliminate government oversight, and then you do whatever you want.

[billwashere@lemmy.world]

I hate this timeline so much.

[ehoff121@lemm.ee]

The object of the lawsuit is to get these deep pocketed corporations to settle for millions. If the companies aren’t able to get the suits dismissed, they will settle. They don’t want to get on the wrong side of the current administration and it’s less costly than a years long legal battle.

[wildcardology@lemmy.world]

Lego is based in Denmark and nestle is in Switzerland.

[vga@sopuli.xyz]

The actual "easy" part is that you can sue anyone for pretty much anything. Suing is entirely different from winning the case.

Why they think they have a chance of winning is the weirder question, especially when Musk publically told the advertisers to go fuck themselves.

[mehblah@lemmy.world]

I suppose after he gets done there he will come after people like me who have blocked every musk related business from my network.

[kent_eh@lemmy.ca]

Can you screenshot that or something. I can't see it without the Facebook account I refuse to have.

[artvandelay@lemmy.world]

Don't have to win, just drag the case out, causing both sides to spend fortunes on legal fees. Guess who has the most money.