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[-] JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 292 points 2 months ago

Maybe asking advertisers to 'go fuck yourselves' isn't such a bright idea, fuckwit.

[-] random_character_a@lemmy.world 31 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

You can also have friends if you just pay mercenaries to kidnap them from the street at gunpoint. Many many great friends at any time.

[-] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 22 points 2 months ago

You just know that's going to be exhibit 1 for the defense.

Fucking fascist Nazi man baby doesn't like when advertisers do what he tells them, and then continues to do so when he realizes that was a bad idea.

[-] JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world 14 points 2 months ago

Reminds me of the guy who was accused by his gf of impregnating her, then refusing to support the child. Went through everything: the lawyers, friends and family who questioned his manhood and unwilling ess to take responsibility for the child, harassment, threats from her friends, etc. finally ended up in court in front of a judge, where he calmly produced a letter from a doctor that had performed a vasectomy on him well before the child could possibly have been conceived, took the win and walked out.

I would pay to watch this rich spoilt man child have to eat his literal words. I'm sure it's screenshotted all over the internet, but his ego won't let him see the truth.

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[-] UnpopularCrow@lemmy.world 185 points 2 months ago

I’m honestly blown away that Nestle stopped or reduced advertising. It seems like twitter is exactly the home for such a terrible company.

[-] Rhaedas@fedia.io 79 points 2 months ago

Not if there's fewer there to see ads. They're still a business with a bottom line, even if what they do is terrible.

[-] ALoafOfBread@lemmy.ml 48 points 2 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Nestle has an extremely safe, risk-averse marketing strategy. In part due to their various scandals, they try really hard to be family friendly and boring.

That said, they are not worse than other food and beverage conglomerates.

  1. child labor: mars & others were also implicated. These companies were most likely unaware of the child labor being used to harvest cocoa. The way it works is there are wholesalers in Africa who buy cocoa from processing facilities who buy fresh cocoa pods from local farms. These wholesalers advertised themselves as being child-labor-free. The farms they buy from were using child labor. This is a problem with capitalism exploiting people in the global south, causing perverse incentives, and with companies having limited insight into the full depth of their supply chains.

  2. water is not a human right: The nestle water exec said the quiet part out loud. But, no beverage company believes water is a human right - they just aren't stupid enough to say that on camera. If they did think it was a human right, they'd be working to ensure universal access to clean water rather than bottling it and shipping it around the world while limiting water access at their extraction points and polluting the water near their factories. Look at what coca cola is doing in mexico - rampant water pollution such that in factory towns Coke is the only safe drink for folks because the water is contaminated. Nestle is bad, but no worse than coca cola.

  3. infant formula scandal: this occurred in the 1970s and was obviously awful. Every major multinational food and beverage conglomerate has stories like this if you look hard enough - this just happens to be a fucked up series of events that got some major media play.

People online scapegoat Nestle, but continue to buy electronics and clothing made with child labor, tree nuts/soda/and other products known to be harmful to watersheds, and many other products from companies which harm people in the global south. This isn't meant to defend nestle, but to remind everyone that there is no ethical consumption under capitalism. Nestle is not anywhere close to an uniquely evil company. Not even in its own industry.

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[-] missingno@fedia.io 153 points 2 months ago

All the defense has to do is play the clip of him openly telling advertisers not to advertise and he'll get laughed out of court.

[-] Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.org 31 points 2 months ago

In an actual court? In Trumps america?

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[-] FireWire400@lemmy.world 129 points 2 months ago

You know you've fucked up when even Nestlé doesn't want to work with you...

Obligatory Fuck Nesté

[-] BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works 22 points 2 months ago

When people go we may use child slaves in our supply chain, steal and ruin water supplies, and bribe medical professionals to get discourage breastfeeding, but you're too fucked up for us to work with then you know you've fucked up.

[-] Womble@lemmy.world 18 points 2 months ago

To be clear, its not that twitter is too fucked up for nestle to work with, they absolutely would if they thought it would benefit them. Its that twitter has become so toxic that they see advertising there as a net negative.

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[-] xenomor@lemmy.world 112 points 2 months ago

The lesson here is to never start advertising on that platform. You’re less likely to be sued by Musk if you never start advertising in the first place. Advertising on his platform is an unnecessary risk for your business:

[-] Telorand@reddthat.com 35 points 2 months ago

Preach. Never do business with a professional troll.

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[-] billwashere@lemmy.world 82 points 2 months ago

Can someone explain to me how you can sue over a business choosing to not spend their advertising dollars on a particular service? I mean Elon specifically told his customers to “fuck off” and now he’s suing them?!? I just don’t understand these petulant little man children being so litigious when they get their feefees hurt.

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[-] slaacaa@lemmy.world 80 points 2 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Nothing says you believe in free market competition more, than suing another private business, trying to force them to give you money

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[-] Railison@aussie.zone 79 points 2 months ago

How long until Tesla sues me for buying a Toyota?

[-] 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 19 points 2 months ago

Currently scheduled for 18th of March.

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[-] ObviouslyNotBanana@lemmy.world 72 points 2 months ago

I didn't know Citizens United gave companies forced speech.

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[-] Valmond@lemmy.world 64 points 2 months ago

Can you please tag this elon, so that our spam filters work?

It's not practical to censor "x"

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[-] resetbypeer@lemmy.world 59 points 2 months ago

Last year he told everybody to go fuck themselves. Now he's crying. If there is somebody who needs to be deported, is it his narcistic, selfish, apartheid's ass.

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[-] rusticus@lemm.ee 51 points 2 months ago

Hey Elmo, you told the advertisers to “go fuck yourself” in no uncertain terms, even repeating yourself for dramatic effect.

Hey I’ve got an idea Elmo. Go fuck yourself.

[-] Australis13@fedia.io 49 points 2 months ago

In a sane world, this lawsuit would be laughed out of court.

[-] Scrollone@feddit.it 32 points 2 months ago

It's harder to laugh it out of court when the plaintiff is in the government himself.

[-] nutsack@lemmy.world 43 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

i don't understand how it's a boycott or how is illegal or unfair

[-] ArchRecord@lemm.ee 36 points 2 months ago

It's not a boycott, neither is it illegal. He's literally just being a crybaby and believes that anybody not pandering to his business model should be forced by the courts to give him money regardless.

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[-] roofuskit@lemmy.world 42 points 2 months ago

"I ruined my business by supporting Nazis and it's all your fault!"

[-] Buffalox@lemmy.world 26 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Musk is not just supporting Nazis, he is a flaming Nazi himself.

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[-] Bieren@lemmy.world 39 points 2 months ago

How dare your company not advertise on my company cause I’m a racist wanna be nazi twat.

[-] Shortstack@reddthat.com 35 points 2 months ago

No better way to get people who used to voluntarily give you money to give you more money than threatening them.

[-] labbbb2@thelemmy.club 32 points 2 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

He's gone crazy from power. People like that are dangerous.

P.S. He acts like some Russian government official tied to organised crime, who now think he owns this country and can do anything in there.

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[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 31 points 2 months ago

wtf is musk even expecting to gain here

[-] Chip_Rat@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago

I mean he's being bukaked with publicity.... So if that's his thing?

What I'd like to know, assuming there is still logic and sanity in this world (please it's all I have don't argue) how would a company from this list have avoided this in the first place? Like once you start advertising with a partner like X then you may never stop? Seriously I'm not sure. So maybe just never risk doing business with anyone because you'll be sued into staying in business with them forever? I'm certain it's right in their contracts how and when they can leave, is that in dispute?

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[-] echodot@feddit.uk 31 points 2 months ago

Oh yes Nestle, the infamously lefty liberals.

[-] aarRJaay@lemm.ee 30 points 2 months ago

Throwing a temper tantrum because no-one wants to play with you. What a child!

[-] Simulation6@sopuli.xyz 27 points 2 months ago

Are boycotts illegal? In this case I doubt there was an organized attempt, just some companies making individual business decisions. But even if Twitter can prove there was a boycott, is there a law against that?

[-] Red_October@lemmy.world 24 points 2 months ago

Boycotts are absolutely legal, you are completely entitled to decide who you don't want to do business with. However, illegality is no longer required for the justice system to be weaponized against you, and President Musk just wants to make an example to others who might not want to do business with an actual Nazi.

[-] digdilem@lemmy.ml 15 points 2 months ago

Surely it's up to the advertisers to choose where who they pay money to use?

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[-] HawlSera@lemm.ee 26 points 2 months ago

Yes, sue literally every company in America, nothing could possibly go wrong.

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[-] Jimmycakes@lemmy.world 26 points 2 months ago

This donkey about to get taught a lesson by nestle. He probably thinks he's hot shit now but he poked the devil.

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[-] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 26 points 2 months ago

Suing companies for not advertising on a platform For Nazis, By Nazis™. 🤡

[-] absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz 26 points 1 month ago

Life goals, don't fuck up so bad that even Nestle wont work with you!

[-] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 22 points 2 months ago

Nazi vs Nestle. Always win for us.

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[-] Plebcouncilman@sh.itjust.works 20 points 2 months ago

How is this even a thing? Is a bank run considered collusion? If the platform no longer offers the audience I want to reach then I should be able to stop advertising on it. It just happens that the audience of may companies at once left the company. Who is even entertaining this lawsuit?

[-] UncleGrandPa@lemmy.world 20 points 2 months ago

i wounder if he will actually get a court to order that every person in the world owes him money.

cause that seems to be what he is working towards.

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[-] JoyfulCodingGuy@lemmy.ml 19 points 2 months ago
[-] cmrn@lemmy.world 19 points 2 months ago

YouTube 10 years ago: we’re becoming as straight-edged as possible to keep advertisers around

Twitter now: Fuck you (wait we needed you)

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