Roger Stone Says He Will Bring an Antitrust Case Against Twitter

[Blue_Adept]

Roger Stone is in full-on cartoon-villain mode since being banned by Twitter on Saturday night, vowing to sue the company and characterizing their dispute as a battle for free speech itself.

“I’ll be baaaaaak,” the sometimes adviser to President Donald Trump wrote in a text message to New York. “They will soon learn they have bitten off more than they can chew.”

He wouldn’t disclose when he plans to sue, saying only that it’ll be “when I am ready to.” But he added, “I am advised I have a very strong legal case. Twitter wants to avoid being regulated like a utility. No one has been willing to file the antitrust case. I am.” (While most antitrust cases are brought by the government, private parties can bring them too, under certain circumstances. Whether Stone would have the standing to do so is a separate question, of course.)

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/10/stone-says-hell-bring-anti-trust-case-against-twitter.html

[roamer65]

1. I think Stone is a coming indictment.

[Iliyah]

2. Ditto

[calguy]

3. He better hurryup because Mueller

is about to bring a case against HIM!!

[ghostsinthemachine]

4. I laughed

Even if he escapes this round, I just don't think he has the kind of jack that it would take to sue, successfully or not, Twitter. Their entire building is full of lawyers. No way, decades in court? Not gonna happen.

[Gothmog]

5. That will be a fun lawsuit to watch and laugh at

[WinkyDink]

6. And their competitors would be...?

[Gidney N Cloyd]

7. Clearly a sign of advanced age if he thinks Twitter has a monopoly on social media.

[onenote]

8. And what "antitrust injury" will he be claiming?

Private party plaintiffs bringing antitrust-based lawsuits must allege an “injury of the type the antitrust laws were intended to prevent
and that flows from that which makes defendants’ acts unlawful” (Brunswick Corp. v. Pueblo Bowl-O-Mat Inc., 429 US 477, 489 (1977)). If Stone can't claim that he was injured in his business or property from being banned from Twitter, he has nothing.

[PSPS]

9. LOL. "I am advised I have a very strong legal case."

He's lying. No ethical lawyer would have given such advice because there are no grounds. Any such case would be summarily dismissed.

[OldHippieChick]

14. Taking talking points from Herr Cheeto

"People say ..." "It is commonly known ..." etc. This way you cannot be challenged and the weak-willed might crumble. This kind of blusterous bullying has been working for Cheeto, so Stone thought he may as well try it.

[L. Coyote]

10. O.K. More popcorn.

[Dread Pirate Roberts]

11. He'll have a lot of time to work on his case

In the prison library!

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

12. I'm guessing it'll be the same day Donnie Doll Hands sues his sexual harassment accusers. nt

[coolsandy]

13. Wow. I want to see how that is done behind bars. I guess the Mercers will fund his case.

I love how the uber rich just keep handing their money around to attorneys to keep from paying taxes that are probably only half their attorney fees.