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X adds Twitch to its advertising boycott lawsuit (www.engadget.com)

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[-] Buffalox@lemmy.world 129 points 3 days ago

This is insane, there should be fines for frivolous lawsuits like this.

[-] mipadaitu@lemmy.world 111 points 3 days ago

This is why he moved to Texas

[-] ryper@lemmy.ca 61 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

And changed the twitter ToS to require suits in a specific part of texas.

Elon Musk's X updated its terms of service to steer user lawsuits to US District Court for the Northern District of Texas, the same court where a judge who bought Tesla stock is overseeing an X lawsuit against the nonprofit Media Matters for America.

The new terms that apply to users of the X social network say that all disputes related to the terms "will be brought exclusively in the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas or state courts located in Tarrant County, Texas, United States, and you consent to personal jurisdiction in those forums and waive any objection as to inconvenient forum."

X recently moved its headquarters from San Francisco to Texas, but the new headquarters are not in the Northern District or Tarrant County. X's headquarters are in Bastrop, the county seat of Bastrop County, which is served by US District Court for the Western District of Texas.

[-] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 71 points 2 days ago

Amazing how terms of service apparently carry the same weight as laws, yet can be changed arbitrarily by businesses on a whim.

[-] echodot@feddit.uk 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

It also wouldn't fly in the EU anyway.

Any lawsuits have to be brought in the country in which the citizen bringing the suit lives. So if I wanted to sue Twitter I literally would have to do them where I live. There is no way for me to sue them in Texas since I'm not a citizen of Texas or the US.

[-] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 56 points 2 days ago

There are. In most states.

He's having the suits filed specifically in one of the few states that don't.

this post was submitted on 20 Nov 2024

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