Elon Musk

[Thumpalumpacus]

Elon Musk is suing all the companies in the US because nobody wants to advertise on X.

Well, maybe I should sue every woman who refused to have sex with me.

X CEO Linda Yaccarino on Tuesday announced that the social media platform has filed an antitrust lawsuit against the Global Alliance for Responsible Media (GARM) and the World Federation of Advertisers (WFA).

In a video posted to X, Yaccarino accuses the organizations — along with GARM members CVS Health, Mars, Orsted and Unilever — of what Yaccarino calls a “systematic illegal boycott” of the platform.

https://techcrunch.com/2024/08/06/x-file...l-boycott/

Citizens United ruled that corporations are people, and per that ruling, enjoy First Amendment rights. One of those rights is the freedom of assembly, "[...] which can mean physically gathering with a group of people to picket or protest; or associating with one another in groups for economic, political or religious purposes." (https://www.annenbergclassroom.org/first...LsQAvD_BwE).

It follows that corporations cannot be forced to do business with other corporations by governmental decree, which is what this lawsuit seeks. Not only is their boycott quite legal, X's attempt to force them to advertise on its platform is an effort to seek an unconstitutional ruling.