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struggle4progress

(118,282 posts)
Mon Jul 30, 2018, 12:39 AM Jul 2018

Nunes Wants To Sue Twitter After Getting Busted For Tweeting Trump/Russia Propaganda

SUN, JUL 29TH, 2018 BY JASON EASLEY

... the accounts that were temporarily caught up in Twitter’s purge of Russian bots and fake news spreaders, all tweet disinformation about the Russia investigation. The disinformation matches Trump’s tweets, and what Russian bots circulate on the popular social media platform. Rep. Nunes is a stooge of Trump’s who was on the Trump transition team and spread the infamous and widely discredited memo concerning the Russia investigation being a conspiracy against Trump ...

https://www.politicususa.com/2018/07/29/devin-nunes-wants-to-sue-twitter-after-getting-busted-for-tweeting-trump-russia-propaganda.html

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Nunes Wants To Sue Twitter After Getting Busted For Tweeting Trump/Russia Propaganda (Original Post) struggle4progress Jul 2018 OP
Two lawsuits by two dipshits...Nunes and spicer pbmus Jul 2018 #1
The problem with actually suing people, as opposed to bogus threats of lawsuits, is DISCOVERY RockRaven Jul 2018 #2
He wont sue as they could subpoena things like Nunes own emails so this is just more bluster cstanleytech Jul 2018 #3
D'ya think Nunes is getting buggy? Hekate Jul 2018 #4
yes, yes i do. mopinko Jul 2018 #6
Sue them for What? Twitter's private and you signed an agreement. bitterross Jul 2018 #5
Nunes is an idiot Gothmog Jul 2018 #7

RockRaven

(14,966 posts)
2. The problem with actually suing people, as opposed to bogus threats of lawsuits, is DISCOVERY
Mon Jul 30, 2018, 12:47 AM
Jul 2018

You wanna sue? Great. Get ready for an uncomfortable life/career-colonoscopy. It's a package deal.

That's why Trump never follows through on his defamation suit threats.
That's why Spicey won't.
That's why Dirty Devin is more likely to win a damn Nobel Prize than he is to win a lawsuit against Twitter.

cstanleytech

(26,290 posts)
3. He wont sue as they could subpoena things like Nunes own emails so this is just more bluster
Mon Jul 30, 2018, 02:50 AM
Jul 2018

by Nunes to try and distract the Trump supporters who do not even have two working brain cells to share among themselves.

 

bitterross

(4,066 posts)
5. Sue them for What? Twitter's private and you signed an agreement.
Mon Jul 30, 2018, 03:19 AM
Jul 2018

Nunes is an idiot. Twitter is a private company. It has no duty whatsoever to publish his tweets or make them public. It has no duty to give him equal access to their medium or access at all.

Also, I bet the terms of service/user agreement to which he agreed when he signed up gives Twitter the right to do just about anything they want with his account and tweets. I'm kind of hoping it includes a binding arbitration clause right about now too.

You have no recourse. If you pass some law to try to force them to show your tweets in the future that will be struck down as a violation of the 1st Amendment.

On Edit from Twitter TOS:

We may suspend or terminate your account or cease providing you with all or part of the Services at any time for any or no reason
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