Elon Musk Apparently Managed to Sue Unilever Into Advertising on X Again
Elon Musk Apparently Managed to Sue Unilever Into Advertising on X Again
X has claimed that a group of advertisers were illegally colluding against it by choosing not to advertise on the platform.
How is this even possible.
180When there aren't proper protections in place for frivolous lawsuits. It costs them more to fight than it would to just advertise on the platform. Time for Ben & Jerry's to make an "eat the rich" flavor with Musk's face on the carton to advertise on X!
100I mean, lawsuits are still one of the best ways for regular people to hold powerful entities accountable, so I'm super leery of anything that purports to stop "frivolous" lawsuits. I think the real underlying problem here is we're expecting a for profit company to do the right thing in a market environment where doing the right thing isn't the most profitable course of action. What we need to do is change the market environment or find someone that's not a for profit corporation to do the right thing (both admittedly easier said than done).
19I'm not too sure how well pork fat ice cream is gonna sell though.....
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Those with deep pockets can threaten expensive legal action even if they know they won't win, simply because those without deep pockets cannot afford to fight the legal battle without going bankrupt.
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I guess Unilever is just into that Nazi shit
90...while also owning Ben and Jerry's, which just put out a flavor in honor of Kamala Harris.
Like many massive corporations, Unilever would like to appeal to the Nazis and people on the left so that everyone buys one of the eighteen billion products they own every day.
77which just put out a flavor in honor of Kamala Harris.
Such a progressive company, they even left Russia!
Close to three years late.
https://www.reuters.com/markets/deals/unilever-completes-sale-russian-business-2024-10-10/
At least they did it, but also a reminder that corporations aren't your friend.
2The funny part would be running said flavor ad on X
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Did you miss the part where they were an unethical megacorporation?
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If true, they deserve a consumer boycott. But it’s almost impossible to stop buying Unilever products, the list is endless. List of brands
55For those unaware:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Unilever_brands
It's staggering. It also shouldn't be legal.
65Yeah, breaking up Google and Amazon is cool, but how about Unilever, P&G, Nestle, etc.
23Damn. This is not what Archimedes meant when he talked about moving the earth with a single lever.
11Thanks. Just edited my post to include a link, then found your contribution.
7Oh nice. I don't use anything on those lists other then Ben and Jerry's.
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They would deserve it regardless, but they're even harder to avoid than Nestle
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They should start advertising again, but their ads only make fun of Musk/X. LOL
38What is Unilever’s evil level, on a scale of Nestles?
38Honestly for a multinational corp operating at the scale they operate that's a pretty good report card. They look like boy scouts compared with Nestle, Coca cola etc
No mention of paying for death squads, no forced child slavery ...
Doesn't mean you shouldn't boycott, just that there's a sliding scale and if you have to choose a Nestle product or a Unilever one is less evil.
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My brain is telling me there used to be an app that could scan barcodes and tell you about that company’s _______ profile.
A quick search returns, the now seemingly defunct, “GoodGuides”.
Anyone know of anything current?
30I used Buycott, dunno if it's still around but I used it just a few years ago
12It’s currently on iOS for 1.99
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Not the same but app Goods Unite Us shows political contributions of companies. !goodsuniteus@lemmy.ca
And I used to use one that showed I’d the company still did business in Russia but I can’t recall the name.
9Thanks!
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I haven't used it in a while, so I don't know if it still works, but the one I had is called Buycott.
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Unilever continued operating in Russia long after the Ukraine invasion as well. Will have to check if they still do even
23Please stop doing the fuckin reddit hivemind thing. This thread is full of people shitting on X but noone bringing up how absolutely horrible this article is. From the top the author clearly has done zero research into the advertising suit the article it's titled about. Has there been a mass internet censoring movement that I missed? Since when has the shock and awe content failed to draw audiences en mass? Either way the writer goes off on this rant about the moral compass of internet content consumers being out off by negative content. Aside from the ridiculousness of the claim, the author at multiple points admits to their admitted speculation being truth. Didn't take much to click on the link provided that is supposed to support his estimate that X lost 80% of its advertisement revenue THEN LINKS TO A YAHOO ARTICLE ABOUT THE SHARE VALUE DROPPING 84%🤣 I mean come on manual there are educated ways shit on X that are fuckin lay ups and this asshat can't even avoid writing made up shit. His only other link that isn't to other articles written by Gizmodo was a link to an article that is 6 fuckin years old speculating if Youtube would survive "adocalypse" back in 2017. Basically proving that the morality of the content doesn't dictate the loyalty of the consumer or the very competitive nature of the marketing and advertising industries. Last fuckin point that irked from the comments is the notion like this company is being bullied by musk/X or whomever to back out of the lawsuit......... theyre a fuckin $150 BILLION corporation. If they are pulling out of thr lawsuit, its because their board members felt ut was in their bottom line's best interest not because they're any mother Theresa. OK I swear to God this is my last bitch but I missed it on my initial read but THE FUCKING TITLE IS EVEN A BELLIGERENT LIE HAHAHAHA Unilever wasn't fucking sued into submission like the fuking title literally says, they themselves pulled out of their decision and rejoined the X ad stream. Idiot author even tries spinning that as a David and Goliath bullshit by saying it's assumed it was because X was making them pay for leaving?!?! The only fuckin way a multi billion dollar corporation is being "forced" to payq fuckall is if it's in a contract that will uphold in court. 🤣🤣🤣 Chatgpt can fuck this publication all day long out of real live journalists if this is the trash they're putting out.
13Coca-Cola (or cough Volkswagen) does not want you to see Nazi content or dead bodies and think of them.
19Too late
4Also Mercedes, Porsche, and many others
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If anyone wondered when the late stage capitalism was going to hit: you missed it.
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