Posted on 09/18/2019 6:11:17 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Facebook is being sued after branding independent journalist Laura Loomer a “dangerous individual,” and the social media giant has now admitted in a court filing that it is in fact a publisher.
Facebook’s new motion in its case against Loomer states, “to the extent Ms. Loomer’s claim targets Facebook’s decision to deactivate her accounts, it is also deficient. Under well-established law, neither Facebook nor any other publisher can be liable for failing to publish someone else’s message.”
Loomer is suing Facebook after the Big Tech giant defamed her as “a dangerous individual trafficking in hate,” and banned her and her pages from Facebook.
“According to Facebook, Trump supporters are more dangerous than ISIS,” Loomer wrote on Telegram. “Facebook banned me and labeled me a ‘dangerous individual,’ but they are creating pages for ISIS terrorists.”
Many of Loomer’s supporters celebrated the news.
(Excerpt) Read more at culttture.com ...
This will bite FB.
Lock him up.
This is _outstanding_ news.
Facebook was trying to have their cake and eat it too.
Next step—they are a de facto monopoly publisher and they need to be trust-busted or regulated like a public utility.
Facebook censoring is the equivalent of ATT interrupting your phone calls and telling you the conversation is not allowed to continue because what you just said violated “community standards” (lefty censor “standards”).
If Zuckerberg is a Republican he will go down. What’s that? He’s not one? Well, that means nothing will happen. Move along.
P4L
Zuckerberg could sway the election of each of those congressmen should be so desire. Congress will never touch him for anything.
Stole his business idea
Stole all the shares from his BEST friend
Secretly sold users’ data
Stated in a confidential email to a friend that people who trust him are "dumb-f*cks".
Married in the community proprety state of California, the very day AFTER he took Facebook public.
Requested nude photos of users to “protect them against the risk of revenge porn”.
Secretly tried to get hospitals to release vast stores of patient data “so I can help cure diseases”.
Initially pursued total rights ownership of images uploaded to FB; if you'd been photoed as a happy youth with, say, a can of Coors then later got really famous, Zuck could be paid by Coors for zero work and YOUR old photo in a new ad while you, the centerpiece of the ad, would get NOTHING. Struck down after lengthy legal battles.
De-platformed numerous Conservatives because he didn't agree with their views, couldn't define hate-speech when asked by Congress.
Secretly requested banks give him his users' financial data, including transactions, so “my users can check their balances on my site."
Digitally permitted his housing advertisers to filter out customers whose search histories were strongly associated with terms like "handicapped" , "mobility scooter" and "guidedog".
Admonished that people "build bridges instead of walls", all while building walls around his Palo Alto homes and around the huge Kauai Estate he bought and then threw the Hawaiians off of.
Established a "trustworthiness index" for ALL his facebook users while disclosing it to none of them.
Altered FB algorithms to flag content from conservative publications as spam.
Revered Augustus Caesar, leader of Rome who assured 200 years of peace via harsh rule, possibly arranging the execution of his own grandson. On a wedding anniversary trip to Rome, Zuck gushed so effusively over sculptures and monuments dedicated to Augustus that his wife joked that three people, not two, were on their trip.
For years, Zuck traditionally closed high-level Facebook executive meetings by shouting, "DOMINATION..!", perhaps half-jokingly.
Proposed installation in the homes of FB users special Facebook cameras that would follow and monitor users around as they went about their private lives inside their homes. But the cameras, Zuckerberg assured, would come with privacy settings which Facebook would, like, totally respect, or something.
Asked for user telephone numbers for 2 factor authentication but within weeks used that data for marketing purposes. If users chose to share their entire contact list, Facebook also shared that data with advertisers, even phone numbers of people who NEVER had a facebook account! After the Cambridge Analytica scandal FB pleged to reinvigorate user privacy but neither of these practices has stopped.
In the runup to the 2018 midterm elections, FB removed over 800 conservative political pages and accounts in a clamp down on what the social media company arbitrarily termed, “inauthentic behavior”. The ambitious political move affected 66 million FB users, most of them Conservative
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Thanks E. Pluribus Unum.
Why hasn’t Zuckerberg been Arrested and had his Domain Seized??
Bfl
Maybe. Never count on a court to do what logic suggests.
Destroy Facebook and Zukerberg forever. The Left’s propaganda and censorship machines must be sunk like the Bismarck with all hands lost.
I agree with all of y’all.....but bear in mind, Alphabet is far larger and more dangerous - and just as leftist - as Facebook. They and Twitter need to be taken down too.
Then the Federal government should - but probably will not - revoke their CDA/230 liability protection!
The Pirates of Silicon Valley.
It was an accurate title.
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