Free market gets sued for practising freedom
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The duden must have a fetish for doomed lawsuits.
Did you hear about the jurisprudence fetishist who got off in court?
(... I'll see myself out.)
Courtroom BDSM fetish
Man who told advertisers to go fuck themselves sues advertisers for not spending money on his platform.
I'm sure this will be sure to bring in tons of advertising dollars to Der Xitter.
I ain't no genius, but maybe the advertisers are busy fucking themselves as per Elon's suggestion. 🤷♂️
Musk is suing under antitrust laws. I’m not sure they work that way. Antitrust laws prevent producers from consolidating and exploiting consumers. However, when it comes to advertising placements, the companies are consumers, not producers, and I don’t think a consumer advocacy group (which the World Federation of Advertisers functions as in this regard) is illegal.
I don’t know, I am not a lawyer, but it seems like Twitter is grasping at straws here.
The interesting thing is that it means he is desperate enough to try something that makes him look this stupid
Anybody with Elon Musk centric stocks needs to sell them quickly
Let's also note that at any other time, Musk would be railing against antitrust laws.
I know right? I mean if they colluded to lower advertising prices through collective agreement that would be something. Especially if they had an internal forcing mechanism to ensure compliance.
But um, they set out voluntary guidelines they suggested everyone follow to protect each member's own best interests, and decided to spend zero dollars to buy nothing, which is a far far cry from trying to spend zero dollars to buy something.
What an ultra-maroon.
Suing former advertisers may possibly not be the best way to get other advertisers to come to your platform.
Didn't he sue another company that did tests on the site to see if ads would show up beside hateful content, which showed they would, and that case ended up being dismissed?
What a silly weirdo.
"Why did people stop paying me for services I no longer provide!?"
- Some guy who burnt down his house and then yelled at Air BnB users for cancelling their bookings
So let me get this straight…
- buy a platform
- ruin it and push away advertisers
- tell them you don’t need them and they should go fuck themselves
- sue them for leaving
…?
'5. Colonize Mars
By this next next year... Definitely within the next 1000 months
Something, something, free market something
ELI5 by Claude 3.5 Sonnet:
Imagine you have a big playground where lots of kids come to play and talk. This playground is called X (it used to be called Twitter). One day, some grown-ups who make toys and candy decided they didn't want to let kids play with their stuff on this playground. They told other grown-ups not to bring their toys there either.
The person in charge of the playground, Linda, thinks this isn't fair. She says the playground is better than ever, with more kids playing and having fun.
Linda is upset because the grown-ups are being mean and not sharing their toys, even though the playground is safe and fun. So now, she's telling a teacher (which is like a judge for grown-ups) that these people are being unfair and breaking the rules.
She wants the teacher to make them play fair and bring their toys back to the playground. Linda thinks this will make the playground even better for all the kids who like to play there.
holy shit i honestly don't know whether i hate twatter/muks more or advertisers more--is it possible for them to both lose, please?
Your honor, I demand they like me. Why doesn't anyone like me...
I didn’t know we could be entitled to advertisement money. Hang on while I sue Unilever for some free money in return for wearing a sandwich board with their logo on it
What a pinheaded twit.
Welp, time to set up a lemonade stand and sue everybody who didn’t stop to buy my $5000 cups of watered-down kool-aid.
Didn't he tell them to "go fuck themselves?" 🤔
So he's the head of the conspiracy and should be the one charged?
Did he just sue himself?
Gambit? Masterful. Car door? Slammed. Dick? Fully inside car door. 12-D chess? Played. Same time tomorrow.
X-Men names
Ah yes I remember the Xmen known as dick, he had such a big....personality that sometimes he can be kind of a wanker🤣🤣
Look at Mr. "Multple dicks to slam into car doors" over here 😆
I was gonna say doors probably won't chop a dick completely off, but if it's a cyber truck all bets are off.
I had almost forgotten about that "finger chop" feature on them...those videos are nightmare fuel
He did and how he's suprised I guess
Poor Mr. Perfume he must REALLY need the money...
“Free speech absolutionist” my ass
His "Free Speech Absolutionism" is just.... Freedom from any consequences for what you say.... Which is also a really stupid thought process..
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