• @Dozzi92@lemmy.world
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    681 month ago

    Easy, you pack courts with shills, you eliminate government oversight, and then you do whatever you want.

    • @vga@sopuli.xyz
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      1 month ago

      The actual “easy” part is that you can sue anyone for pretty much anything. Suing is entirely different from winning the case.

      Why they think they have a chance of winning is the weirder question, especially when Musk publically told the advertisers to go fuck themselves.

      • @ArtVandelay@lemmy.world
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        221 month ago

        Don’t have to win, just drag the case out, causing both sides to spend fortunes on legal fees. Guess who has the most money.

        • @tias@discuss.tchncs.de
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          X has an estimated market cap of $9.4 billion, whereas Nestlé has a market cap of $219 billion. That’s a corporate superpower with no qualms about monopolizing freshwater or bait- & switching breast milk formula from babies. And it’s just one of the companies they’re taking on, with a shitty case to boot. So yeah… if I was Elon I would keep my head down.

      • @thr0w4w4y2@sh.itjust.works
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        1 month ago

        Paying a couple of five or six figure sums to continue advertising on X, versus paying millions to fight a protracted legal battle - I know which option the shareholders of those companies will be pushing for.