Es stellt sich heraus, dass es kein Verstoß gegen das Kartellrecht ist, wenn Werbetreibende Inhalte mit Neonazi-Bezug nicht finanzieren wollen
Es stellt sich heraus, dass es kein Verstoß gegen das Kartellrecht ist, wenn Werbetreibende Inhalte mit Neonazi-Bezug nicht finanzieren wollen
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This article is about Elon Musk and X. Musk apparently thinks it’s a crime when ads don’t want to do business with him, after he told the ads to go „F themselves“ too
>Remember when Elon Musk told advertisers to “go fuck” themselves and then sued them for the crime of taking his advice? A federal judge has now dismissed that lawsuit — with prejudice — confirming what anyone with a passing familiarity with antitrust law already knew: companies deciding they don’t want their brands plastered next to extremist content aren’t engaged in an illegal conspiracy. They’re just making basic (probably pretty smart) business decisions.
>When X Corp filed this case back in August of 2024, we walked through in great detail why the legal theory was fundamentally broken. Not broken in a “they pleaded it badly” kind of way, but broken in a “this theory does not describe an antitrust violation no matter how many drugs you’re taking or how convinced you are that the world owes you advertising dollars” kind of way. Judge Jane Boyle of the Northern District of Texas has now agreed, and the key section of her ruling is worth reading in full, because it says what we said at the outset: X has not suffered antitrust injury.
Musk was just trying to scare off Advertisers with the threat of lawsuits.
so they’re like „stop censoring uss“ but at the same time „please keep funding uss“
I still don’t understand how people are still on Twitter.
Every time I reply with this, people respond “nobody’s on Twitter anymore, it’s all bots,” but I’m talking about, like, Verizon. Coca-Cola, Delta Airlines, Allstate, Target… like, you can Tweet at them. They have an official account.
That’d be like if State Farm was on 4Chan or Rumble or something. There’s like heinous shit on Twitter all the time, completely out of control. The owner of the website tweets heinous shit and they’re like “well, we need to maintain a presence.”