Elon Musk's X sues advertisers over alleged 'massive advertiser boycott' after Twitter takeover

Didn't he tell them to "go fuck themselves?" 🤔

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

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

…?

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"

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

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.

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.

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.

Mandatory product purchasing. The ultimate capitalist’s wet dream…

Your honor, I demand they like me. Why doesn't anyone like me...

Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I present to you Exhibit A.

That is all, I rest my case. Thank you.

The duden must have a fetish for doomed lawsuits.

"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

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?

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

Free market gets sued for practising freedom

“Free speech absolutionist” my ass

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.

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

Something, something, free market something

What a pinheaded twit.

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?

What a silly weirdo.

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.

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