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Former President Donald Trump plans lawsuit against Facebook and Twitter, AP source says
JILL COLVIN, Associated Press ^ | 7/7/2021 | WLKY

Posted on 07/07/2021 7:53:28 AM PDT by Right Wing Vegan

Edited on 07/07/2021 9:07:12 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

Former President Donald Trump is expected to announce a class-action lawsuit Wednesday against three of the country's biggest tech companies: Facebook, Twitter and Google.

Trump will serve as the lead plaintiff in the suit, claiming he has been wrongfully censored by the companies, according to a person familiar with the action. The person spoke on condition of anonymity to share details ahead of the announcement.


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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 1stamendment; classactionsuit; facebook; firstamendment; google; twitter
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1 posted on 07/07/2021 7:53:28 AM PDT by Right Wing Vegan
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To: Right Wing Vegan

Get ‘em !!!


2 posted on 07/07/2021 7:56:05 AM PDT by Col Frank Slade
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To: Right Wing Vegan

Lawfare. I hope he wins and takes them down.


3 posted on 07/07/2021 7:56:41 AM PDT by Fai Mao (I don't think we have enough telephone poles.)
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To: Right Wing Vegan

My first question is will he put enough money into this to make it a serious effort, or is he just trying to score some political points and keep his name in the news.


4 posted on 07/07/2021 7:58:33 AM PDT by Reno89519 (Buy American, Hire American! End All Worker Visa Programs. Replace Visa Workers w/ American Wo)
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To: Right Wing Vegan
Should have happened long before: there is absolutely no way that a US company which is required under existing laws and the US Constitution to provide service to everyone within our communications system, can block anyone or anything, much less a former President of the United States.

Any company that does this should have it licenses revoked and its leaders tried for violating the 1st Amendment rights of the banned individual and all of us who back him.

5 posted on 07/07/2021 7:59:08 AM PDT by Chainmail (Remember - that half the people you meet are below average intelligence)
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To: Right Wing Vegan

Class Action Law Suit. Curious to see how many people get on board the Trump train.


6 posted on 07/07/2021 7:59:23 AM PDT by duckman ( Not tired of winning!)
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To: Right Wing Vegan

long, long overdue


7 posted on 07/07/2021 8:00:08 AM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: Right Wing Vegan

“Trump’s true believers still believe, and there’s no room in their hearts and minds for anyone else.”

I don’t “believe” in Trump. I believe in America and Trump is championing my beliefs. Simple as that.

I’m sticking with a proven fighter/winner!


8 posted on 07/07/2021 8:01:14 AM PDT by Eddie01
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To: Right Wing Vegan

I don’t know enough about the relevant case law to predict what his chances of prevailing are. I suspect for him to be successful, he’s going to have to find a jurist and an appellate court that is willing to build new law. Unfortunately, ‘conservative’ jurists are least likely to follow that path.

But, what I think is plainly predictable is if it looks like Big Tech might not prevail, they’d simply ‘un-ban’ Trump, mooting his case. They would surely rather lose the battle than the war.


9 posted on 07/07/2021 8:01:42 AM PDT by ScubaDiver (Reddit refugee.)
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My first question is will he put enough money into this to make it a serious effort, or is he just trying to score some political points and keep his name in the news.

There is no reason he should foot the bill all by himself. My first question is: how many of us will step up and support the effort?

10 posted on 07/07/2021 8:02:39 AM PDT by gloryblaze
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To: Right Wing Vegan

The AssPress. There’s that “baseless” word again. It doesn’t mean what they think it means.


11 posted on 07/07/2021 8:03:51 AM PDT by Flavious_Maximus
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To: Right Wing Vegan

the instant the arizona audits are released —the playing field will shift.


12 posted on 07/07/2021 8:05:23 AM PDT by ckilmer
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continued to spread lies

Will never get used to this poor excuse for journalism. "Continues to assert" or "allege" would even be said of a criminal. Judgmental words such as "lies" ring of third world state-sponsored reporting.

13 posted on 07/07/2021 8:06:13 AM PDT by Right Wing Vegan
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Watching live now…


14 posted on 07/07/2021 8:07:23 AM PDT by Reno89519 (Buy American, Hire American! End All Worker Visa Programs. Replace Visa Workers w/ American Wo)
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No standing./s


15 posted on 07/07/2021 8:07:54 AM PDT by daler
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Nonetheless, Trump has continued to spread lies about the 2020 election, baselessly claiming that he won, even though state and local election officials, his own attorney general and numerous judges, including some he appointed, have said there is no evidence of the mass voter fraud he alleges.

Soon to be followed by a libel suit???? Baselessly???? Seems to me there is a lot of evidence. It was just not allowed by a cabal of corrupt politicians. I would love for the real truth about this to come out. It sure feels like political corruption is screwing we the people

16 posted on 07/07/2021 8:08:29 AM PDT by RatRipper ( Democrats and socialists are vile liars, thdieves and murderers - enemies of good and America.)
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To: gloryblaze

Why not? He could throw a billion dollars at it, imagine the legal power that could be brought to bear. Going cheap, asking for donations is not leadership, nor show conviction. He was wronged and needs to act like it.


17 posted on 07/07/2021 8:09:12 AM PDT by Reno89519 (Buy American, Hire American! End All Worker Visa Programs. Replace Visa Workers w/ American Wo)
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To: ScubaDiver

Damage has already been done, many times over.

Nothing now can make it “okay.”


18 posted on 07/07/2021 8:09:54 AM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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>>Nonetheless, Trump has continued to spread lies about the 2020 election, baselessly claiming that he won, even though state and local election officials, his own attorney general and numerous judges, including some he appointed, have said there is no evidence of the mass voter fraud he alleges.<<

Remember, “journalists” claim they are not biased. The correct way to phrase this is “President Trump continues to claim the election was stolen and he should be President.”

All the other words are opinions about the validity of that claim. It is far from baseless. BASELESS was “Russia, Russia, Russia” we heard for 5 years.


19 posted on 07/07/2021 8:10:25 AM PDT by freedumb2003 (The democrats have just replaced KKK with CRT. /Kevin McCarty 7/6/21)
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Why does the link take me to a pillow ad (not My Pillow)?


20 posted on 07/07/2021 8:11:25 AM PDT by freedumb2003 (The democrats have just replaced KKK with CRT. /Kevin McCarty 7/6/21)
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