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I can’t believe this is real holy shit
In a statement on Tuesday about the lawsuit, X’s chief executive, Linda Yaccarino, said: “People are hurt when the marketplace of ideas is constricted. No small group of people should monopolize what gets monetized.”
Because there’s a misconception about what BDS laws usually are. You as a consumer can boycott Israel. You can call for others to boycott Israel and do so as a group. You can own a business and refuse to buy things from Israel. And even the most reactionary court will take your side if a law was passed that did otherwise.
What most BDS laws do is to say if you are a government entity or do any business with the government, you cannot formally boycott Israeli products. Functionally this prevents a lot of businesses from boycotting Israel and critically, state universities too.