Trump Announces Law Suit Against Face Book, Twitter and Google.
Fox News Reporter Gillian: We have been listening to President Trump, Former President Trump, speaking from his golf course in Bedminster, New Jersey. He has announced he’s leading a Class Action Lawsuit against BIG TECH. In the City has filed, he names Twitter CEO – Jack Dorsey, Google SEO Sundar Pichai, and also Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg by name.
The President saying he is suing them essentially for banning him in the aftermath of the capital invasion on January 6th. He said it was unlawful and unconstitutional.
So far Twitter has permanently banned the President no matter what, even if he runs again. They said he’s not coming back to the platform.
Facebook has taken a modified approach, he is banned now through 2023. But they may reconsider that decision if, they say, his account is no longer constitutes a threat to public safety. I want to bring in Emily Compagno, she is an attorney and also a cohost of “Outnumbered.” She’s been kindly standing by listening to these remarks so she can break it all down for us.
Emily, What is your number one take away here so far? My number one take away is that t his class action is based on the premise that these digital platforms are sort of because Government institutions that, instead of being wholly private. That they’ve been granted special favors by the Government and therefore do not have the right to ask Dominic exclude that a lot of private companies do. Now, I’m basing this on Justice Thomas Defense in the Biden v. Knights of Columbia case that came out in April, and part of my understanding of this complaint, is that it’s largely based on that premise that was articulated by Justice Thomas. That here this team has pounced on two filed a lawsuit with. I want to make sure viewers understand, that this occurs by a judge. Meaning you can file a lawsuit as a Class Action but is technically not certified as such until a judge does it. So the First step, obviously, that this lawsuit has been filed.
We are all looking forward to reading it and dissecting it further. Once it is taken into consideration, the Judge will determine whether it does meet the standards for a Class Action. In which case, he or she will certify it or decline to certify it. In which case then it would be back to the sole plaintiff. So one of the things he said just now, Emily, he leveled this claim that during the pandemic specifically, Big Tech and the Social Media companies became a De Facto Fourth Arm of the Government. He said they did this — he accuses them of censoring true, real information about the spread of the Coronavirus, and he says that they also promoted falsehoods from other government officials.
How does that stack up to what — because the case we’ve heard from him in the past. It seems to me that’s going to be part of their argument. Not only was this a desperate application in terms of censorship, but frankly that they were censoring actual true facts and allowing them to be amplified — this is again, their obligations Dominic allegations. Amplified falsehoods, so not applying their own set of standards correctly and freely to their uses,, as well as acting as an arm of the government. He said they had been deputized, essentially. Acting as that arm. I go back again to the Justice Thomas consists Dominic concurrence upon which this was based, that when the Government has given special favors to because of government entities, he calls them like common carriers for example he says that when they come out of private entity space. There Dominic they again become that entity, and that’s what he’s arguing. That they were acting as an arm of the Government, and therefore not allow to exclude. Therefore, not allowed to censor. That’s where that first amendment argument comes into play.
Justice Thomas also, by the way noted that Governments, the limited private company’s right to exclude is even more stark, the larger market share they have. I look forward to seeing flesh out — for example, Google is the gate between your search and 90% of the information out there. We will hear from the President aware, although these companies argue that we are not a dominate force, or not the only force in the market, that there’s other avenues out there, the argument will be that the lion’s share they hold is in part what bolsters the argument that they, in fact, are acting as this because Government …..
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