X said the companies worked against their economic self-interests in a conspiracy violating US antitrust law

michael-laugh I can't believe this is real holy shit

In a statement on Tuesday about the lawsuit, X’s chief executive, Linda Yaccarino, said: “People are hurt when the marketplace of ideas is constricted. No small group of people should monopolize what gets monetized.”

  • D61 [any]
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    5 months ago

    I’m gonna sue Walmart for not paying me… no your Honor, I have never been an employee of Walmart.

    • JohnBrownsBussy2 [she/her, they/them]
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      5 months ago

      It would be the other way around. They'd be suing you for shopping at their competitiors and thereby acting against your economic self-interest (as determined by Walmart.)

      • SoyViking [he/him]
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        5 months ago

        The difference is that Ricky would actually be able to talk the judge into agreeing with him:

        Your honour, I'm moving the court to sentence Mr. Lahey to pay me like a million dollars for being a drunk bastard and for not buying weed from me anymore. He used to buy all his weed from me but now that he's back on the liquor he doesn't smoke weed any more and that is fucked up. Your honour, I try to run a small business and now this drunk trailer park supervisor is violating all my human amendment charters.

        • LocalOaf [they/them, ze/hir]
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          5 months ago

          Using the Canadian People's Freedom of Choices and Voices Act to force advertisers to buy ads to buy his hash coins and also pay him in hash coins

          Simple supply and command

      • GalaxyBrain [they/them]
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        5 months ago

        Ricky wouldn't be so litigious. He'd have to pay for a lawyer, most of which cost more than $12.35, some hash and six or seven sticks of pepperoni (pepperoni in this case being a local misnomer for what's really closer to a polish sausage, nova Scotia has weird food quirks)