(August 6, 2024 at 1:14 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote:(August 6, 2024 at 12:56 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: 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.
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.
Even without Citizens United this suit wouldn't make sense. The other companies made a valid business decision that advertising with Twitter after Galaxy Brain took it over would cost them business and thus stopped (especially after their ads started running alongside nazi posts).
But then again, on his very best day and if he was really, really and I mean right really lucky, Galaxy Brain would display the intelligence of a dead goldfish.
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