Posted on 07/08/2021 4:19:03 AM PDT by definitelynotaliberal
Former President Donald J. Trump on Wednesday sued three tech giants — Facebook, Twitter and Google — and the firms’ chief executives after the platforms took various steps to ban him or block him from posting.
Mr. Trump, speaking from his Bedminster, N.J., golf club, announced that he would serve as the lead plaintiff in the class-action lawsuit, arguing that he has been censored wrongfully by the tech companies. Speaking about “freedom of speech” and the First Amendment — which applies to the government, not to private-sector companies — Mr. Trump called his lawsuit, which was filed on Wednesday in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida, a “very beautiful development.”
His political operation immediately began fund-raising off it.
At the event and in court documents, Mr. Trump’s legal team argued that the tech firms amounted to state actors and thus the First Amendment applied to them.
Legal experts said similar arguments had repeatedly failed in the courts before.
“Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t work for the government, Jack Dorsey doesn’t work for the government,” Eric Goldman, a law professor at Santa Clara University School of Law and a co-director of the High Tech Law Institute, said of the Facebook and Twitter chief executives. “The idea that somehow, magically, we can treat them as an extension of the government is illogical.”
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That was a blank. Your Zucker Spreader is out of manure.
“Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t work for the government, Jack Dorsey doesn’t work for the government,” Eric Goldman, a law professor at Santa Clara University School of Law, said of the Facebook and Twitter chief executives.
What an idiot! There are actually emails between Zuckerberg and Fauci coordinating the banning and censoring. The social media platforms were acting as a communication branch of the government.
Also, this is not Trump’s lawsuit. This is a class action lead by Trump. Tens of thousands can join seeking damages.
And didn’t Project Veritas go undercover at one of these agencies where they were bragging about working with the RATs to mess with the election?
As if lawsuits pay for themselves.
36 states are doing the same thing time to unload big tech stocks.
10-to-1 Shane Goldmacher chortled in print when a federal “judge” forced Trump to unblock Twittsewer Trump-hating slime...
This will be an interesting case. Normally government can’t entice a 3rd party to do what government itself is prohibited from doing. The enticement is exemption from liability for otherwise prohibited actions. Somewhat like government exempting a private school from liability for excluding minority students.
The Florida Democratic Party of 1943 was a fine private organization.
Southern gentlemen and ladies worked hard to ensure that quality people were nominated to serve the people of Florida and the United States.
And there is no finer person than a Southern gentleman.
Just because some ignorant Yankees refused to do some serious thinking was no reason for a federal court to meddle in the affairs of a private organization.
I trust President Trump wins his law suit and gets plenty of donations for his 2024 election campaign.
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