Remember when Elon Musk told advertisers to “go fuck” themselves and then sued them for the crime of taking his advice? A federal judge has now dismissed that lawsuit — with prejudice — confirming what anyone with a passing familiarity with antitrust law already knew: companies deciding they don’t want their brands plastered next to extremist content aren’t engaged in an illegal conspiracy. They’re just making basic (probably pretty smart) business decisions.
When X Corp filed this case back in August of 2024, we walked through in great detail why the legal theory was fundamentally broken. Not broken in a “they pleaded it badly” kind of way, but broken in a “this theory does not describe an antitrust violation no matter how many drugs you’re taking or how convinced you are that the world owes you advertising dollars” kind of way. Judge Jane Boyle of the Northern District of Texas has now agreed, and the key section of her ruling is worth reading in full…
The real crime is clogging the courts with this BS.
I just dont get how weak the US justice system is. You can sue for literally anything. It’s like no law is upholded unless you have lawyers.
That’s the entire idea of what has been lobbied and constructed over generations. The wealthy have access to infinite appeals, have their crimes categorized as “white collar” so they might do a few years for stealing millions or billions if they happen to suffer the miscarriage of justice actually finding them guilty, while port saps stealing corn nuts from the grocer get far longer sentences. The system is working for exactly whom wrote it’s laws, no strange coincidence historically in any global setting.
Reading about the consternation in the US about what would happen had trump been given a sentence after having been found guilty during the run-up to the election was a good primer on how warped things are. Many could only express concern for how Trump’s life should be able to go on as normal regardless of a “justice” system if guilty and elected. The simple answer, long forgotten since kindergarten, is that there have to be consequences for actions. It’s been laid incredibly bare there no longer are. The US either starts to take them back ala South Koreas’s new administration or fully embrace failed, corrupt state membership.
Seems to me like you understand correctly.
The entire system was desdigned by and for the rich. It is a 2 tier system, the rich have a completely different set of rules and are rarely held accountable.