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X's likelihood of prevailing in boycott suit is higher than I thought


The social media site sued an ad-industry nonprofit, accusing it of antitrust violations

But after having read the 44-page initial complaint, I now understand what X's legal arguments are, and as I was researching more about this area of the law, it became clear that there are a number of Supreme Court rulings that make X's likelihood of prevailing higher than I assumed. For instance, at one point the suit writes about how the purpose of GARM is for advertisers to make an industry-wide commitment to removing or discouraging harmful content from ad-supported media. The designers' organization was acting as an extra-governmental agency, sort of like a private version of the FTC, prescribing its own rules and regulations, and providing extra-judicial punishments for noncompliance.

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