Updated: This just in from
Newsweek on the topic below with this headline:
“Trump’s Lawsuit Claims Michelle Obama and
Democrats Coerced Facebook to Ban Him”
Trump also is blaming Democrats, including former
first lady Michelle Obama, for pressuring Facebook to ban him from their platform, thereby making it harder for him to run for president in
2024.
Full story at the Newsweek
site – check it out.
Original post is below:
From
Bloomberg this latest fund-raising stunt from Trump with this headline:
“Trump Sues Facebook, Twitter, and Google
Over Social Media Bans”
Legal-related parts
from the article:
NetChoice CEO Steve
DelBianco (whose members include Amazon and other tech companies) said in a
release: “Trump’s action shows a deliberate misunderstanding of the First
Amendment and is without merit. Trump has no case. The First Amendment is
designed to protect the media from the President, not the other way around.”
The Computer & Communications Industry Association (CCIA)
whose members include Facebook, Twitter, and Google said in a joint statement
that digital services have the right to enforce their terms of service and “that
frivolous class action litigation will not change the fact that users – even Presidents
– have to abide by the rules they agreed to.”
Joshua
Davis, a professor at University of San Francisco’s law school, agreed
Trump’s legal argument was weak but he also said politics may inspire some
judges to rule differently, adding: “Trump is very likely to lose the cases
on the legal merits. Having said that, there are political movements afoot that
probably make it attractive to conservative judges who are concerned about
effects of social media on conservative causes and also more liberal judges who
are concerned about the power that social media commands.”
The Scam: Trump and the RNC began fundraising solicitations almost
immediately, including one appeal seeking donations that says: “To show your support for
President Trump’s lawsuit against Big Tech.”
My Note: So, it is true. This is
purely in simple terms, just another Trump con. Just another of his wild scams to
raise money that he badly needs to meet financial obligations (loans and such)
that he is failing to meet.
Trump in reality with this suit seeks to overturn the Federal law that shields internet companies from liability for content posted by users – and that provision is in “Section 230 of the 1996 Communications Decency Act (CDA).”
That provision protects social media platforms from lawsuits that accuse them of unfairly removing posts or accounts, among other legal challenges.
Plus, the First Amendment prohibits the government from forcing
tech companies to leave up or take down certain categories of posts.
Additionally, those three companies are private and not
subject to First Amendment claims from users that gives them liability
protections under Section 230 of that law.
Full
story at the Bloomberg link – check it out.
My 2 Cents: Once again
Trump blatantly shows how nasty and corrupt he truly is. Time to wake up, America — that is mostly red-state Trump loyalists.
This again shows that he will use any method and stoop to any low to raise money (now using the RNC) to help him meet his tons of financial debt which are piling up and he can’t find any banks to loan him more money.
He is badly
hurting for money to meet those obligations, and this effort might be one of
his very worse, low-down efforts yet. We shall see.
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