• Pennomi@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Ah yes, suing your customers is a brilliant way to get more people to buy your stuff.

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    So let me get this straight…

    1. buy a platform
    2. ruin it and push away advertisers
    3. tell them you don’t need them and they should go fuck themselves
    4. sue them for leaving

    …?

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    Suing former advertisers may possibly not be the best way to get other advertisers to come to your platform.

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    Advertisers have given me no moneys either.

    Send cheque plz.

    I’d really love to see fElon get what he wants here. One paid ad from all the companies.

    “Elon fucks kids”

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    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.

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      I ain’t no genius, but maybe the advertisers are busy fucking themselves as per Elon’s suggestion. 🤷‍♂️

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    Wow, I didn’t think he could top his past idiocy, but this is pretty impressive. “You were unfair to me because I’m a terrible piece of shit and you didn’t want the association of your brand and my nazi site so you owe me money!” It’s just incredible.

    Hat tip, Lonnie. You’ve outdone yourself again.

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    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.

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      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

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      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.

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    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?

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    “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

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    Being a lawyer and working for someone like Musk must be both rewarding and embarrassing at the same time.

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        You never “what if’ed” at your job? I don’t think the lawyers complain too much…

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      Rewarding because you can accurately gauge exactly how much smarter you are than the world’s richest man?

      Or rewarding because you get to burden the legal system with all those hypotheticals that the one troll in your law classes kept asking and your professors kept claiming “no judge would ever entertain that idea”?