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Trump's social media lawsuits, if they're somehow allowed to proceed, could end up forcing him to testify under oath about Jan. 6.
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) July 8, 2021
Twitter's TOS (which you agree to when you sign up) literally says "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, including, but not limited to [reasons listed]"https://t.co/WXLjR1rGHm
— Phillip M Jackson (@Jolly_Jack) July 8, 2021
But here's the hypocrisy: As @ericgoldman points out, the U.S. leader who has exerted the most state pressure on social media platforms' content moderation decisions is... Donald J. Trump. https://t.co/xQkTC3eBKg pic.twitter.com/hNySYWihuf
— Will Oremus (@WillOremus) July 8, 2021
Trump found not one but 8 lawyers willing to put their names on lawsuits alleging that private companies violated the First Amendment, which applies to government entities. https://t.co/fW0Uytsrmy pic.twitter.com/tNPmLEhgnD
— Jan Wolfe (@JanNWolfe) July 7, 2021
Social media companies need not worry about Donald Trump’s lawsuit. He and his legal team have sued us countless of times — and we are still here making his life miserable.
— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) July 7, 2021
You're a moron if you think these Republican conspiracy nuts have any thoughtful analysis on the issues with big tech, or any solutions to the real problems surrounding the tech corporations and the power they have pic.twitter.com/EeHUwdCOgE
— Wild Geerters (@classiclib3ral) July 8, 2021
Donald J. Trump writes in @WSJ https://t.co/8xjcssn6Cz
— Nandagopal Rajan (@nandu79) July 8, 2021
Trump's Facebook lawsuit is filed in federal court in Florida. Facebook's terms of service requires that "any claim, cause of action, or dispute you have against us" be filed in federal court in northern California or San Mateo County state court.
— Brad Heath (@bradheath) July 7, 2021
Trump lawyers know they will never need to produce any discovery because the case will be dismissed before an answer is filed. This lawsuit can only be about distraction and fundraising because it is not about the law.
— Barb McQuade (@BarbMcQuade) July 7, 2021
If I were on the receiving end of this obviously bogus lawsuit, I’d yawn. Then yawn again. https://t.co/fKQVNXUhgm
— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) July 7, 2021
How you know this is a unserious lawsuit: Trump is already fundraising off of it pic.twitter.com/Njq8VqHAdB
— Sam Stein (@samstein) July 7, 2021
Assuming the lawsuit advances (which is a big if), Trump will have to give sworn testimony about January 6 https://t.co/olegHBbqQN
— Ben Jacobs (@Bencjacobs) July 7, 2021
Trump has the First Amendment argument backwards. Facebook and Twitter themselves have a First Amendment right to decide what speech their platforms amplify — a right that includes excluding speakers who incite violence, as Trump has done.https://t.co/hl9aw1cmPE
— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) July 7, 2021
And there it is: Trump fundraising appeal off his lawsuit already out pic.twitter.com/4KUaokjezH
— Nick Corasaniti (@NYTnickc) July 7, 2021
Obviously Trump's lawsuit against Facebook and Twitter for censoring his posts is dumb and frivolous, which you can conclude after reading the entire 44-page complaint or just after checking how many of his Very Serious Lawyers use their AOL email accounts https://t.co/bldN6MyIIv pic.twitter.com/XOqsXsa9vx
— Jay Willis (@jaywillis) July 7, 2021
The First Amendment does *not* apply to non-governmental actors. Full stop. https://t.co/FAmXafuOZZ
— Steve Vladeck (@steve_vladeck) July 7, 2021
That's two guys with "@aol.com" addresses for their professional email, a 13-lawyer firm that does personal injury work and insurance litigation, with lead counsel whose specialty is insurance claims and criminal defense (Matthew Baldwin), and a Greenwich CT firm whose named guys
— Akiva Cohen (@AkivaMCohen) July 7, 2021
Trump’s social media lawsuits follow the same playbook as his Election Defense Fund, which netted $250 million in donations to (unsuccessfully) overturn the 2020 election. https://t.co/OOvlb8Qfw4
— Frank Luntz (@FrankLuntz) July 8, 2021
One, HAHAHA
— Bradley P. Moss (@BradMossEsq) July 7, 2021
Two, no.
Three, if it was, DOJ would have to intervene and I’m sure that’s totally what Trump wants.
Four, if Facebook/Twitter were actual state actors, don’t you think the White House Counsel would have told Trump that and advised him how to control them? https://t.co/CaHMln4aT1
Surprisingly, a big focus of this Trump class action is Covid. Trump et al are suing Facebook for adding health warnings to Covid disinformation. https://t.co/v1mhOUjk0U
— Arieh Kovler (@ariehkovler) July 7, 2021
This is even more stupid than I expected https://t.co/QNBQHUQ7k0 pic.twitter.com/LKMFEf5sKR
— Ari Cohn (@AriCohn) July 7, 2021
The specific argument in his lawsuit is that Facebook and Google were deputized to censor his speech by the government he himself was then leading. https://t.co/zAdHIKQqMX
— Brad Heath (@bradheath) July 8, 2021
Awww, Shitler wants to sue Facebook, Twitter and YouTube because he broke the rules and they won’t let him talk. #GoodLuckWithThat #FerMee pic.twitter.com/jquyVYo23k
— George Hahn (@georgehahn) July 7, 2021
Below is an excerpt from Trump's WSJ op-ed, "Why I’m Suing Big Tech."
— Jan Wolfe (@JanNWolfe) July 8, 2021
His core claim -— "Big Tech has been illegally deputized as the censorship arm of the U.S. government" — is being panned by legal experts.
Facebook and Google were just recently *sued* by the US government! pic.twitter.com/3RpBuazOXR
orange man says BIG!… HUGE!!…. words
— Matt Navarra (@MattNavarra) July 8, 2021
and stuff
? https://t.co/4KaLzw3JQJ
this is trump's lawyer https://t.co/ypXoTlu4rM
— kwame brown v. board (@arguendiot) July 7, 2021
Donald Trump is suing Facebook for violating the First Amendment. Here's the complaint: https://t.co/2c6g0P80a7
— Adam Steinbaugh (@adamsteinbaugh) July 7, 2021
Don’t be taken in by the “what if it does” retort.
— Steve Vladeck (@steve_vladeck) July 7, 2021
The “state action” doctrine is about as firmly embedded a principle of constitutional law as there is. To overturn it would have incredibly broad consequences — many of which the current Supreme Court would be loath to embrace.
.@LevinsonJessica: Fmr. President Trump’s main difficulty here is that Facebook, Twitter and Google, while indisputably powerful, are private companies, not part of the govt. When social media companies act, it is a private action, not govt action. https://t.co/CKJYOB3QJf
— MSNBC Daily (@MSNBCDaily) July 8, 2021
Trump claims he is filing a "class-action" lawsuit against social media companies for throwing him off their platforms.
— S.V. Dáte (@svdate) July 7, 2021
What, exactly, is the class?
Presidents who lost re-election and then tried to overthrow American democracy to remain in power?
That is a class of one. pic.twitter.com/i5uxvo2sYp
A good way to tell whether or not you’re being censored is if you get a column in the Wall Street Journal that they then share on the internet https://t.co/5TsnJuWoIs
— Patrick Hedger (@PatHedger18) July 8, 2021
True Conservatism™️ is surrender https://t.co/Chn0ac24QZ
— Kurt Schlichter (@KurtSchlichter) July 8, 2021
“believe me” https://t.co/rfYzgZz928
— Philip Bump (@pbump) July 8, 2021
Those lawsuits should also force him to testify to his partnership with social media company in 2016 - assisting the Russian intelligence services in their attack on American democracy. https://t.co/mj71ARlncM
— Eric Garland (@ericgarland) July 8, 2021
The responsibility of conservative elites for the authoritarian takeover of American conservatism is very great. Their occasional ineffectual demurrals notwithstanding, @WSJopinion and others have rationalized, enabled, and legitimized Trump and Trumpism.https://t.co/iPWBcbqulu
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) July 8, 2021
Former President Donald Trump writes for @WSJopinion: If Facebook, Twitter and YouTube can censor me, "they can do it to you—and believe me, they are." https://t.co/Uo4QSHxpMr
— WSJ Politics (@WSJPolitics) July 8, 2021
? #BREAKING: House Judiciary Republicans Release Agenda for Taking on Big Tech. pic.twitter.com/LbZBmmIl4Z
— House Judiciary GOP (@JudiciaryGOP) July 7, 2021
Just to clarify for the sad mindless trolls cheering on foreign billionaire oligarchs to censor political debate in Australia
— Craig Kelly MP (@CraigKellyMP) July 8, 2021
I’m suing Facebook for defamation & misleading or deceptive conduct under ??laws before ?? courts.
Trump is suing under the ??Constitution. https://t.co/ycvo39FxQ4
I, for one, am sure that Trump's frivolous lawsuits are definitely not a textbook case of him trying to distract everybody from something else... like the very non-frivolous lawsuits against his own company. https://t.co/dajivw622N
— Michael Marshall Smith (@ememess) July 7, 2021
When paragraph 3 of your lawsuit declares Facebook is the government pic.twitter.com/uvzAJ9BScN
— Devlin Barrett (@DevlinBarrett) July 7, 2021
In one of the various Trump books that came out, there was a scene where he realizes that attacks on the media really resonate with the crowds. Wonder if attacks on Big Tech will connect in the same way. https://t.co/1zIa3zYP3M
— Jay Yarow (@jyarow) July 8, 2021
President Trump is suing Facebook and Twitter! What they did to him and what they have been doing to all of us is flat out unfair! Class Action Lawsuit.
— Terrence K. Williams (@w_terrence) July 7, 2021
WE DESERVE JUSTICE!
FOLLOW ME ON the new Free Speech App GETTR! It’s better than Twitter
Follow ? https://t.co/KfrzXToFsx pic.twitter.com/kjwrDrVqEU
Trump’s lawsuit claiming that Facebook, Twitter, and Google are “censoring” him makes no legal sense—but plenty of political and financial sense. My story this a.m.: https://t.co/xQkTC3wd8Q pic.twitter.com/FjxQxbwG2C
— Will Oremus (@WillOremus) July 8, 2021
A slight pet peeve here: Liberals saying "lol private companies can't do censorship" may be correct from a legal standpoint. But politically it's a tone-deaf stance. Trump's lawsuit may be dumb but dismissing corporate power over speech is misguided. https://t.co/xQkTC3wd8Q pic.twitter.com/ML41JzxlO5
— Will Oremus (@WillOremus) July 8, 2021
But here's the hypocrisy: As @ericgoldman points out, the U.S. leader who has exerted the most state pressure on social media platforms' content moderation decisions is... Donald J. Trump. https://t.co/xQkTC3eBKg pic.twitter.com/hNySYWihuf
— Will Oremus (@WillOremus) July 8, 2021