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Trump’s lawsuits against Big Tech although most Americans aren’t likely to hear this any time soon could prevail according to analysts and experts.
The familiar protest that private companies are not bound by the First Amendment is directly addressed in Trump’s lawsuits against the major tech companies; and the central argument that these particular private companies should be treated as agents of the state has precedent to support it.
“Their censorship constitutes state action because the government granted them immunity from legal liability, threatened to punish them if they allow disfavored speech, and colluded with them in choosing targets for censorship,” writes Vivek Ramaswamy, author of “Woke Inc.: Inside Corporate America’s Social Justice Scam
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Laura Ingraham, a former law clerk for Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, knows darned well that Donald Trump’s lawsuit against Facebook, Twitter and YouTube is going nowhere but she kept that from her viewers in a softball interview with Trump’s lead lawyer, John Coale.
No sooner had I posted last night that Coale is the husband of former Fox News host (and Trump slobberer) Greta Van Susteren, than Coale got a friendly Fox platform to tout his loser lawsuit.
Notice how Ingraham seemed to endorse the suit without mentioning its (very slim) chances of success. She also failed to mention that Coale’s wife is her former colleague:
Trump Sues Twitter, Facebook and Google, Claiming Censorship
Voice of America
08 Jul 2021, 07:35 GMT+10
Former U.S. President Donald Trump has announced class-action lawsuits against three major tech companies, accusing them of wrongfully censoring him and other conservatives. We re asking the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida to order an immediate halt to social media companies illegal, shameful censorship of the American people, said Trump on Wednesday.
Trump is the lead plaintiff in the class-action lawsuits against Facebook, Twitter and Google (which owns YouTube), as well as their chief executive officers, respectively, Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Dorsey and Sundar Pichai, whom Trump sarcastically described as three real nice guys.
WASHINGTON DC - El expresidente de los Estados Unidos Donald Trump ha anunciado demandas colectivas contra tres importantes empresas tecnológicas, acusándolas de censurarlo injustamente a él y a otros conservadores.
“Estamos pidiendo al Tribunal de Distrito de Estados Unidos para el Distrito Sur de Florida que ordene el cese inmediato de la censura ilegal y vergonzosa del pueblo estadounidense por parte de las empresas de redes sociales”, dijo Trump el miércoles.
Free Press: El decreto de Trump busca dar miedo a las redes sociales
Free Press subraya que Twitter es una compañía privada, lo que le da el derecho de poner ciertas reglas. Sin embargo, el mandatario considera que las redes sociales han abusado de este poder al ejercer la censura contra las voces conservadoras en EE.UU.