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    Suing your former customers, now there’s a way to make people want to do business with you!

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      I assume these companies being sued follow standard procedure, which is that everything freezes the moment a lawsuit starts. It’s pretty much a guarantee that these companies halt spending, let alone even communicate, with X

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        It’s also common to re-evaluate business deals after major acquisitions. Musk buying Twitter dramatically changes the business perception, and that’s what matters to advertisers. Twitter can’t even begin to try and claim it doesn’t, just look at Musk’s tweets leading into it and directly after. The entire purpose of his purchase was to fundamentally change it, he said so himself.

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    Such a free speech absolutist. Wanting the government to compel companies to pay to speak on the private platform that he owns. Some real Trickle down free speech

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    In related news, Musk filed separate suits against the sororities from his university for an “illegal boycott” against dating him.

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    I too would like to sue the advertisers for boycotting my Breaking Bad erotic fan fiction page. That includes you Musk. I expect Twitter to start sending the checks next month. Or I guess I’ll see you in court.

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    World Federation of Advertisers

    There are no good guys in this fight.

    Musk posted about the lawsuit on X on Tuesday, saying “now it is war” after two years of being nice and “getting nothing but empty words.”

    Stop sounding like my mom with Borderline Personality Disorder.

    In November 2023, about a year after Musk bought the company, a number of advertisers began fleeing X over concerns about their ads showing up next to pro-Nazi content and hate speech on the site in general, with Musk inflaming tensions with his own posts endorsing an antisemitic conspiracy theory.

    Musk later said those fleeing advertisers were engaging in “blackmail” and, using a profanity, essentially told them to go away.

    And they did. Now fuck off.

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    the lawsuit stemmed in part from evidence uncovered by the U.S. House Judiciary Committee

    Real evidence, or another Gym Jordan special?

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    1. Ruin a popular site at a blistering pace driving away users.
    2. Criticize advertisers for also leaving and tell them to leave if they don’t like step 1.
    3. Sue said advertisers for leaving.
    4. No one wants to advertise with you.
    5. Surprise pikachu.jpg

    Did I miss anything?

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      Don’t be silly.

      Parents writing that letter, while misguided, is still them trying to protect their child, and so has an element of selflessness, and their hearts are in the right place.

      This is like him PERSONALLY threatening people for not being friends with him, which is way creepier and unsettling.

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    threads could do the funniest thing ever and launch their advertiser program this week.

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    So any entity that does something stupid that makes companies not want to associate with them anymore can sue for damages caused by their own mistake?

    This is either very stupid or some 6-D chess move to make millions. Hmm…

    Also, free market as long as it’s profitable for you, right?

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        Well he probably wont and is just running his mouth bigging himself up for his idiotic cult fanbase, if he does sue I am guessing it gets thrown out with prejudice, because what fucking merit would a case like this have?