TFG says he is suing Facebook, Twitter and Google, claiming bias

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

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]

1. Good luck with that.

[Wild blueberry]

2. He's found a lawyer who will work for nothing?

[Ms. Toad]

9. Not exactly -

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]

10. Does he actually understand that there has to be other people to join

this class to be a class action suit? What's he going to do, find other banned jerks?

[Ms. Toad]

12. Interesting -

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]

3. Can't wait for Trump to be deposed.

[Beausoleil]

8. I'd settle for

Decomposed!

[jonstl08]

4. They just want more censorship

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 If this is repealed pretty much nobody on either side will be able to post anything because the companies could be sued for it.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]

5. Fat Donnie must be running out of money -- criminal defense lawyers are expensive.

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]

6. Sounds like...."I NEED money! Lots of money"

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]

7. I think that it is amusing

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]

14. I think it's hilarious that after all these years....

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]

11. Conservative Isn't The Issue Fat Donnie

It’s 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]

13. There is no bias, Chump.

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]

15. He doesn't have class, he just has crass, therefore he doesn't have standing.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

16. Why Trump's 'class-action lawsuit' is so hard to take seriously

I agree with Steve Benen/ This is a fundraising stunt

Link to tweet

Complicating matters just a bit more, there have been related cases along these lines, and they've all failed: private social-media companies are not arms of the government, judges have ruled, and they have the authority to regulate content. Similarly, Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which protects companies from such lawsuits, still exists, Trump's incessant whining about the provision notwithstanding.

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