Elon Musk's X Sues Advertisers Coalition Over Boycott

[Will B Good]

16 minutes ago, frank83628 said:

 

 doxing is against the rules and quite frankly a sly cowardly trait of some left journalists. they deserve to be removed.

elonjet was basically doxing too and a security risk for someone of Musks status.

Activists and critics..like who? got a list or was that a google copy & paste?

 

and prior to Musk buying it many conservative pages were consored, restricted or shadow banned.....but that didn't matter.

 

 

You asked the question...like who?

 

Don't ask if you think you might not like the answer.

[frank83628]

5 minutes ago, Will B Good said:

 

You asked the question...like who?

 

Don't ask if you think you might not like the answer.

it not that i didn't like it,  it's a copy n paste google result that basically says nothing,  doxing is against twitter rules, it's hardly musk clamping down on or censoring the left.

 

 

[Will B Good]

4 minutes ago, frank83628 said:

it not that i didn't like it,  it's a copy n paste google result that basically says nothing,  doxing is against twitter rules, it's hardly musk clamping down on or censoring the left.

 

 

 

So it was serious question...?

 

Not as in..... Ha! Like who.....no one!!

[Presto]

7 hours ago, impulse said:

 

If one advertiser decides not to spend on X, that's legal.  If they independently decide not to advertise on X, that's legal. 

 

If they band together that's collusion, and it's illegal.  If they band together to squelch free speech, that's dangerous.

 

Glad to see that Rumble has joined the lawsuit.

 

Elon Musk and free speech! Have you considered a career in stand up comedy?

[impulse]

2 hours ago, frank83628 said:

twitter was great in their eyes when the right was censored, now if become 'fair' to both they hate it

 

Funny how that works...

 

Edit:  Great to see he filed the suit in Texas.  Where lefties have to fight fair.  Except in Austin, which we refer to as LA East with all the Cali refugees fleeing to Texas.

 

Edited August 8 by impulse

[spidermike007]

There is no doubt that Musk is a brilliant guy, but he seems to be a terrible businessman, and would be well advised to take on some advisors in this role, if not step down from his positions as head of his companies. All too often he lets his ego get in the way of smart business decisions and he seems to be his own worst enemy on a lot of levels. This petty lawsuit is nothing but a move by a petulant guy who is used to getting his own way, and makes him look foolish. I don't have the legal expertise to know whether or not he can prevail in something like this, but it seems rather dumb and arrogant to think that you can sue and force advertisers into supporting you. Perhaps they are simply dropping X because of its financial failures. 

 

The docs obtained by Bloomberg also show X lost $456 million in the first quarter of 2023. X responded to a request for comment from Business Insider with an auto-reply saying, "Busy now, please check back later."

Musk's relationship with the advertising community — from which X makes most of its money — has been strained.

 

At an event last year, he infamously told advertisers to go "f**k" themselves after several — including Disney, IBM, Apple, and Lionsgate — abandoned the platform following a post by Musk that was criticized as antisemitic.

Edited August 8 by spidermike007

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6 hours ago, frank83628 said:

like who?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/markjoyella/2024/01/09/elon-musk-silencing-his-critics-as-journalists-are-suspended-by-x/

https://apnews.com/article/elon-musk-technology-business-dac21de7abb6167bb604f5317aeda10a

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/04/elon-musk-twitter-still-banning-journalists

https://www.newstatesman.com/comment/2023/08/elon-musk-silence-critics-twitter

[Presto]

2 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

There is no doubt that Musk is a brilliant guy, but he seems to be a terrible businessman, and would be well advised to take on some advisors in this role, if not step down from his positions as head of his companies. All too often he lets his ego get in the way of smart business decisions and he seems to be his own worst enemy on a lot of levels. This petty lawsuit is nothing but a move by a petulant guy who is used to getting his own way, and makes him look foolish. I don't have the legal expertise to know whether or not he can prevail in something like this, but it seems rather dumb and arrogant to think that you can sue and force advertisers into supporting you. Perhaps they are simply dropping X because of its financial failures. 

 

The docs obtained by Bloomberg also show X lost $456 million in the first quarter of 2023. X responded to a request for comment from Business Insider with an auto-reply saying, "Busy now, please check back later."

Musk's relationship with the advertising community — from which X makes most of its money — has been strained.

 

At an event last year, he infamously told advertisers to go "f**k" themselves after several — including Disney, IBM, Apple, and Lionsgate — abandoned the platform following a post by Musk that was criticized as antisemitic.

Imo, Musk is using his billions, and X, to push the country in a far right, fascist direction. He doesn't care about money lost, he had enough.

And he's not the only billionaire doing that.

Edited August 8 by Presto

[frank83628]

2 hours ago, placeholder said:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/markjoyella/2024/01/09/elon-musk-silencing-his-critics-as-journalists-are-suspended-by-x/

https://apnews.com/article/elon-musk-technology-business-dac21de7abb6167bb604f5317aeda10a

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/04/elon-musk-twitter-still-banning-journalists

https://www.newstatesman.com/comment/2023/08/elon-musk-silence-critics-twitter

so basically 4 versions of the same article , none of which give specific details. doxing breaks twitter/X rules. so they got suspended for breaking the rules, so a non story x 4.

 

i didn't see the left complaining when 'the right' were silenced prior to Musk's purchase. HYPOCRITES. COM

 

 

[susanlea]

3 hours ago, Presto said:

Imo, Musk is using his billions, and X, to push the country in a far right, fascist direction. He doesn't care about money lost, he had enough.

And he's not the only billionaire doing that.

Great just like Thailand. Far right and fascist. 

[Roo Island]

16 hours ago, impulse said:

 

If one advertiser decides not to spend on X, that's legal.  If they independently decide not to advertise on X, that's legal. 

 

If they band together that's collusion, and it's illegal.  If they band together to squelch free speech, that's dangerous.

 

Glad to see that Rumble has joined the lawsuit.

 

Link to legal ruling proving this? Rumble? Worse than X, which is terrible

[Roo Island]

5 minutes ago, susanlea said:

Great just like Thailand. Far right and fascist. 

Yup. X is far right and facist. One of the worst things to happen to society

[riclag]

He’s got a lot of dead Presidents in the bank  to do it .This guy shook the world when he took away the lefts platform  that exposed censorship  of conservative speech ! Anytime a freedom warrior with money can  implicate wrong doing , Im all for it!

 

I’d love to see him get into the search engine business!

[pegman]

17 hours ago, impulse said:

 

If one advertiser decides not to spend on X, that's legal.  If they independently decide not to advertise on X, that's legal. 

 

If they band together that's collusion, and it's illegal.  If they band together to squelch free speech, that's dangerous.

 

Glad to see that Rumble has joined the lawsuit.

 

Where did you get your law degree? Trump University?

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1 hour ago, frank83628 said:

so basically 4 versions of the same article , none of which give specific details. doxing breaks twitter/X rules. so they got suspended for breaking the rules, so a non story x 4.

 

i didn't see the left complaining when 'the right' were silenced prior to Musk's purchase. HYPOCRITES. COM

 

 

I got a suggestion for you: try reading the articles before you comment on them. The first three articles were about three separate incidents. The 4th was about a baseless defamation lawsuit that musk launched. In a way that last one is the worst since it's using the legal system to suppress criticism by making it unaffordable for those at targets.

[tonbridgebrit]

Elon Musk is obviously a man who is slightly mental. And why does he call himself Elon ?

Why can't his name be Simon ?  Or John, Derek, Peter, Matthew, Tyrone, Ashok, Trevor ?  Have you ever thought why he's called Elon ? He's not the same as normal people, he's not.

[tonbridgebrit]

And Tesla is the most massively overated company of them all. There are a stack of companies who build similar cars to Tesla, and there market capitalization is far smaller.  If you've got shares in Tesla, I seriously suggest you sell. Don't buy Tesla shares, even if they have fallen.

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15 hours ago, impulse said:

 

We'll see.  But I wouldn't bet against X's legal team.

 

Musk's legal team also lost the court case in Delaware.

[impulse]

Advertising group suspends brand safety unit after Elon Musk’s antitrust lawsuit

 

The World Federation of Advertisers, or WFA, confirmed Thursday that it would halt its nonprofit initiative Global Alliance for Responsible Media. GARM was started in 2019 in part to help advertisers avoid having their promotions show up alongside content they deem harmful.

 

https://www.cnbc.com/2024/08/08/ad-group-suspends-garm-after-of-x-elon-musks-antitrust-lawsuit-.html

 

Global Alliance for Responsible Media (GARM)

 

Brought to you by the free speech advocates at WEF.

 

https://www.weforum.org/projects/global-alliance-for-responsible-media-garm/

 

[bamnutsak]

Elon Musk previously on advertisers...

 

 

 

 

Linda Yacorino explains it all, with her hands....