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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTFG says he is suing Facebook, Twitter and Google, claiming bias
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Former U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday said he was filing lawsuits against Twitter Inc, Facebook Inc, and Alphabet Inc's Google, as well as their chief executives, alleging they silence conservative viewpoints.
Trump said he filed the lawsuits in federal court in Florida. He said he would seek class action status in the suits, which would seek restitution and punitive damages. He did not specify who the other members of the class were.
Trump lost his social media megaphone earlier this year after repeatedly falsely claiming that his election defeat was the result of widespread fraud -- an assertion that was rejected by multiple courts, state election officials and members of his own administration. Hundreds of his supporters launched a deadly assault on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 after Trump repeated those false claims in a fiery speech near the White House.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/trump-says-he-is-suing-facebook-twitter-and-google-claiming-bias/ar-AALSNEb
Please proceed you corpulent creep.
grumpyduck
(6,272 posts)Wild blueberry
(6,670 posts)Ms. Toad
(34,117 posts)But class actions are designed to address the situation in which no single claim is worth paying a lawyer for - so the lawyer's fees come out of the settlement/award.
Liberal In Texas
(13,590 posts)this class to be a class action suit? What's he going to do, find other banned jerks?
Ms. Toad
(34,117 posts)Especially since I can't imagine a court would find him an appropriate class action plaintiff.
Among other thngs, he has to have facts and law in common with the class (and as the president, he doesn't), has to be typical of the class, and be an adequate representative - which generally means he has to be motivated and positioned to protect the class interests, rather than pursuing his own personal agenda.
Cattledog
(5,919 posts)Beausoleil
(2,845 posts)Decomposed!
jonstl08
(412 posts)If I reading this correctly him and the rest of the GOP want to repeal Section 230 of the internet act which limits what the companies can be sued for. If this is repealed pretty much nobody on either side will be able to post anything because the companies could be sued for it.
Just more censorship.
PS. He violated the terms of agreement the companies make everybody agree to so I am sure they had a multiple of lawyers making sure it was legal. Good luck with that.
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,600 posts)He's already got all those lawyers to pay for defending him for past civil and criminal activities, and if these lawyers are smart they'll get the money up front.
ProudMNDemocrat
(16,811 posts)For my upcoming Trials in New York because I paid no taxes on under the table finge benefits, etc.
The grifter needs to grift. That is all this lawsuit is.
Chainfire
(17,663 posts)That at this time in Trump's life that he is trying to sue private businesses because he did not like the decisions made by the executives.
Initech
(100,108 posts)Conservatives still don't get that forums have rules. And they don't get a free pass to say whatever they want. If you break the rules, you get banned. Trump broke the rules, he got banned. What's there not to get?
colsohlibgal
(5,275 posts)Its flat out lying and inciting violence.
BTW loved Lawrence O Donnell doing a segment on how we claim to be a democracy but have the Electoral College where you can win but then lose......and how other democracies are puzzled by this, how we can be a democracy when the person with way more votes can lose.
Oh and Chitolini needs to be in a psych ward in a Prison.
Initech
(100,108 posts)You break the rules of the forum, you get banned. It's that fucking simple.
You broke the rules, you got banned. You deserve what happens to you.
TheBlackAdder
(28,227 posts)LetMyPeopleVote
(145,666 posts)I agree with Steve Benen/ This is a fundraising stunt
Link to tweet
So why bother? Why go through the motions with a misguided public-relations stunt, rooted entirely in dubious claims and conspiracy theories that don't make any sense?
There's no great mystery here: "Before Mr. Trump was done speaking, both the National Republican Congressional Committee and the National Republican Senatorial Committee had sent text messages about the lawsuit and asked for contributions. Mr. Trump's political action committee sent its own solicitation shortly after the event ended. 'Donate NOW,' it said."
I don't doubt that many will fall for this. Republican voters who've been conditioned to believe that Twitter and Facebook are big meanies toward conservatives will likely grab their credit cards to show their support for Trump and this pointless exercise.
But that doesn't mean this lawsuit has merit; it means the opposite