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

submitted 8 months ago by moe90@feddit.nl to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 133 points 8 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] mipadaitu@lemmy.world 114 points 8 months ago (1 children)

This is why he moved to Texas

[–] ryper@lemmy.ca 63 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

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 72 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months 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.

[–] themurphy@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

So we're just going past the line of obviously corrupt without batting an eye? They even tell us now. Written. Legally binding.

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 57 points 8 months ago

There are. In most states.

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