Posted on 03/18/2019 3:38:17 PM PDT by COUNTrecount
California GOP Rep. Devin Nunes filed a major lawsuit seeking $250 million in compensatory damages and $350,000 in punitive damages against Twitter and a handful of its users on Monday, accusing the social media site of "shadow-banning conservatives" including himself to influence the 2018 elections, systematically censoring opposing viewpoints and totally "ignoring" lawful complaints of repeated abusive behavior.
In a complaint filed in Virginia state court on Monday, obtained by Fox News, Nunes said Twitter was guilty of "knowingly hosting and monetizing content that is clearly abusive, hateful and defamatory – providing both a voice and financial incentive to the defamers – thereby facilitating defamation on its platform."
Although federal law ordinarily exempts services like Twitter from defamation liability, Nunes' suit said the platform has taken such an active role in curating and banning content that it should face liability like any other organization that defames.
"Twitter created and developed the content at issue in this case by transforming false accusations of criminal conduct, imputed wrongdoing, dishonesty and lack of integrity into a publicly available commodity used by unscrupulous political operatives and their donor/clients as a weapon," Nunes' legal team wrote. "Twitter is 'responsible' for the development of offensive content on its platform because it in some way specifically encourages development of what is offensive about the content."
In large part because of Twitter's actions, Nunes "endured an orchestrated defamation campaign of stunning breadth and scope, one that no human being should ever have to bear and suffer in their whole life" in the past year, according to the complaint.
The complaint also named specific Twitter accounts that spread allegedly defamatory material about Nunes. One defendant, identified as "Liz" Mair, purportedly published tweets that "implied that Nunes colluded with prostitutes and cocaine addicts, that Nunes does cocaine,
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You boxed oranges and apples?
Nunes has big ones.
A national hero.
“... Although federal law ordinarily exempts services like Twitter from defamation liability”
Facebook already admitted in court it is a publisher and not a neutral platform.
These ‘social platforms’ attempt to claim immunity under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.
I LOVE DEVIN NUNES!!! I just hope he has a great security detail. He is a real hero and he just may make a huge difference in beating back the evil MSM and biased social media control freak scabs!
They would have beat me :)
I wonder if “ZUCKIE” has called in his legal team to help Twitter? That bastard should be NEXT!
Ha, I know what you mean. In my case I had to get hit just right, and then the bell in my head would ring, it was a high like no other. If I was granted a few seconds, out came the raging bull! Time left was the problem. If I got it early in the round, you went down. If I got it late, time ran out. My ring was the ice rink, somewhat controlled. On the street, pure rage! The human mind,is like the devil on one shoulder, and the Angel on the other.
Well you sounded crazy to begin with so I would have avoided you! :)
Me, I just kept getting beat up too much by other Italians so I took up boxing to defend myself!
It helped a lot.
Gotta add Fox News too.
Time the government stepped in and forced these companies to provide equal access and exposure to all comers - the feds made lunch counters in the south serve blacks when they didn’t want to fifty years ago on the grounds that if they were going to provide to the public they had to do it equally as a matter of civil rights - they can do the same today to the cyberelites.......
Common carrier, liability free means it does not shape the content that is carried over its service. But it does, actively.
This should make interesting reading in the footnotes on their Q1-10K reports. /smile
I will watch Hannity tonight to see if this qualifies as another "bombshell." - Tom
“Time the government stepped in and forced these companies to provide equal access and exposure to all comers - the feds made lunch counters in the south serve blacks when they didn’t want to fifty years ago on the grounds that if they were going to provide to the public they had to do it equally as a matter of civil rights - they can do the same today to the cyberelites.......”
Well stated. You laid out the grounds, succinctly and correctly, to force these Silicon Valley Nazis to treat all speech fairly and without prejudice. Now we need a judge to agree before we send an armed division to make these American-hating pigs treat everyone equally.
This man continues to impress me.
He has fought so hard against the Deep State, often against death threats against him and his family.
I’m so proud of him, because if we conservatives don’t start standing up for our right to be heard, we’re going to lose the freedom to be heard at all.
LOL
Discovery should be fun.
As an ex boxer I say it’s high time we got off the ropes and out of the corner and started slugging back.
HEAR! HEAR!
“Bloody awesome if true.”
Finally, someone taking the Reagan approach. If you want to beat liberals you have to bankrupt liberals.
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