Law question:

As a purely technical matter, suppose the ADL went to every single twitter advertiser and told said they should stop advertising on twitter due to hate speech. Would there be any grounds for lawsuit? I don't understand what claim Musk could imagine making over this. It'd be like suing a reviewer for saying a restaurant's food is bad, no?

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@ZachWeinersmith Correct. It's not about winning the lawsuit. It's about intimidating the target (and sometimes also about fundraising from his army of rubes). He knows he has more money and can throw more resources at an army of lawyers. All he has to do is commit more than they can afford to combat. It's a war of attrition.

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