• @expatriado
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    344 months ago

    don’t stick your ad dollars in crazy

  • Talaraine
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    304 months ago

    I think this article might be looking at this wrong. Corporations play all kinds of shell games with organizations and lawyers and there are plenty of examples where corps duck responsibility by dissolving or sometimes even reorganizing these organizations.

    Just because GARM has dissolved doesn’t mean this kind of movement is over… like at all. The article itself states several similar lawsuits that failed.

    • @mkwt
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      174 months ago

      Yeah. You can’t sue GARM, because GARM is dead. You win! Pay no attention to the recently incorporated “GARM 2”.

      • @The_v
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        114 months ago

        One time in my industry, a small startup company in Israel caused around 4 million dollars in damage due to negligence in the U.S., Mexico and Honduras.

        A month later that company was out of business. All their assets where purchased by another company. Conveniently the new owners were kids the old companies owners. The old owners where I hired on as “consultants”.

  • @shalafi
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    274 months ago

    “Everyone can see that advertising on X is a treacherous business relationship for advertisers,”

    Said the same yesterday. Imagine throwing money at X after all this.

  • OhStopYellingAtMe
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    4 months ago

    Hey guys. I’m starting to suspect that this Elon Musk fella is not a very nice dude.

  • @MehBlah
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    84 months ago

    Just the snakes eating their own tail. Nonprofit doesn’t mean unbiased or non commercial goals. Whoever was funding them will just move on to another non profit.

  • @Snapz
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    44 months ago

    Him and that Linda as his conniving lapdog.

    • @Phegan
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      104 months ago

      Nobody was conspiring, they just stopped advertising on a sinking ship.

    • @[email protected]
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      54 months ago

      Except I doubt the conspired. I find it far more likely that they all saw what Muskrat was doing and didn’t want to do business with him, because he’s an ass.

      Also he told them to go fuck themselves, so yea.

    • @mkwt
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      04 months ago

      I rather doubt that buyer boycotts are actually illegal (with the exception of the anti Israel boycotts).

        • NaibofTabr
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          44 months ago

          What monopoly? There are many platforms for ad placement. Boycotting one platform doesn’t make the rest of the market a monopoly.

            • NaibofTabr
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              24 months ago

              By your logic, any group that organizes a boycott of any company is guilty of creating a monopoly. That is not how monopolies work, and it is also not illegal. It is a normal function of a free market.

        • @mkwt
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          34 months ago

          A monopoly exists when there is only one seller of a product. A monopsony exists when there is only one buyer of a product.

          I’m really not sure that the Sherman Antitrust Act regulates artificial monopsonies the same way it does with monopolies