Today President Donald Trump presented an op-ed piece published in the Wall Street Journal explaining why he is suing Big Tech giants Google, Facebook and Twitter. You can find the filings here: YouTube/Google Lawsuit HERE and Facebook Lawsuit HERE
Donald J Trump – “One of the gravest threats to our democracy today is a powerful group of Big Tech corporations that have teamed up with government to censor the free speech of the American people. This is not only wrong—it is unconstitutional. To restore free speech for myself and for every American, I am suing Big Tech to stop it.
Social media has become as central to free speech as town meeting halls, newspapers and television networks were in prior generations. The internet is the new public square. In recent years, however, Big Tech platforms have become increasingly brazen and shameless in censoring and discriminating against ideas, information and people on social media—banning users, deplatforming organizations, and aggressively blocking the free flow of information on which our democracy depends.
No longer are Big Tech giants simply removing specific threats of violence. They are manipulating and controlling the political debate itself. Consider content that was censored in the past year. Big Tech companies banned users from their platforms for publishing evidence that showed the coronavirus emerged from a Chinese lab, which even the corporate media now admits may be true. In the middle of a pandemic, Big Tech censored physicians from discussing potential treatments such as hydroxychloroquine, which studies have now shown does work to relieve symptoms of Covid-19. In the weeks before a presidential election, the platforms banned the New York Post—America’s oldest newspaper—for publishing a story critical of Joe Biden’s family, a story the Biden campaign did not even dispute.
Perhaps most egregious, in the weeks after the election, Big Tech blocked the social-media accounts of the sitting president. If they can do it to me, they can do it to you—and believe me, they are.
Jennifer Horton, a Michigan schoolteacher, was banned from Facebook for sharing an article questioning whether mandatory masks for young children are healthy. Later, when her brother went missing, she was unable to use Facebook to get the word out. Colorado physician Kelly Victory was deplatformed by YouTube after she made a video for her church explaining how to hold services safely. Kiyan Michael of Florida and her husband, Bobby, lost their 21-year-old son in a fatal collision caused by a twice-deported illegal alien. Facebook censored them after they posted on border security and immigration enforcement.
Meanwhile, Chinese propagandists and the Iranian dictator spew threats and hateful lies on these platforms with impunity.
This flagrant attack on free speech is doing terrible damage to our country. That is why in conjunction with the America First Policy Institute, I filed class-action lawsuits to force Big Tech to stop censoring the American people. The suits seek damages to deter such behavior in the future and injunctions restoring my accounts.
Our lawsuits argue that Big Tech companies are being used to impose illegal and unconstitutional government censorship. In 1996 Congress sought to promote the growth of the internet by extending liability protections to internet platforms, recognizing that they were exactly that—platforms, not publishers. Unlike publishers, companies such as Facebook and Twitter can’t be held legally liable for the content posted to their sites. Without this immunity, social media companies could not exist.
Democrats in Congress are exploiting this leverage to coerce platforms into censoring their political opponents. In recent years, we have all watched Congress haul Big Tech CEOs before their committees and demand that they censor “false” stories and “disinformation”—labels determined by an army of partisan fact-checkers loyal to the Democrat Party. As the cases of fellow plaintiffs Ms. Horton, Dr. Victory and the Michael family demonstrate, in practice this amounts to suppression of speech that those in power do not like.
Further, Big Tech and government agencies are actively coordinating to remove content from the platforms according to the guidance of agencies such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Big Tech and traditional media entities formed the Trusted News Initiative, which essentially takes instructions from the CDC about what information they need to “combat.” The tech companies are doing the government’s bidding, colluding to censor unapproved ideas.
This coercion and coordination is unconstitutional. The Supreme Court has held that Congress can’t use private actors to achieve what the Constitution prohibits it from doing itself. In effect, Big Tech has been illegally deputized as the censorship arm of the U.S. government. This should alarm you no matter your political persuasion. It is unacceptable, unlawful and un-American.
Through these lawsuits, I intend to restore free speech for all Americans—Democrats, Republicans and independents. I will never stop fighting to defend the constitutional rights and sacred liberties of the American people.” (link)
Thanks for this info and links. It is virtually IMPOSSIBLE to find anywhere else!
Here’s a nice passionate comment I copied from another cite:
Our elected reps are helping them. Not one charge against any of these tech companies for blatant in our faces monopolies in which they have been allowed to steer entire elections in order to solidify power in all levels. Let’s talk about “election interference” shall we? Not one charge against the crooked IRS for deliberately targeting conservatives and Christians denying them a voice, a PAC, and even an entry into the race. Banning, blocking Republican “candidates” WHILE they are running for office. Delisting, shadow banning and blocking MILLIONS of massive conservative groups right at critical election intervals. Even banning the President of this country! Then they banned ANY PROOF shared or even TALKING about election FRAUD. Are you kidding me? Now they are costing MANY INNOCENT LIVES to be needlessly taken due to protecting criminal “health experts” who have a PROVABLE conflict of interest in pushing these injections, yet they are STILL and banning, delisting and blocking VICTIMS, doctors and REAL experts (even the creator of these toxic MRNA injections) from having a VOICE to allow them to warn the public about what is coming out of those needles. These tech monopolies are all guilty of crimes against humanity and they’ve been allowed to wreak havoc on us at a global level by our own elected reps who have refused to use the CURRENT LAWS to reel them in, break them up and send the criminals at the top to prison for life where they belong. A pathetic congressional HEARING in which the sell outs of these tech empires were NOT forced to testify under OATH does ZERO in turning this threat around. It just proves to the public our elected reps wanted to act like they were on it as they still did nothing. Now here we are. Reel them in, start arresting the real criminals who have been censoring vital information our people need to see.
You covered it perfectly.
And now people as in “We the People” will finally get off their worn frayed cheeto stain couches to march into Washington? Oh wait no! They prefer to watch it on TV! Get it?
Who spends the most money on lobbyists in DC? It’s the social media companies. Name a politician in DC who is going to kill that golden goose that leads to $$ in their pockets? They can all play the game but the reality they won’t do a damn thing to stop it.
Big Pharma is #1 but yes big Tech is up there at the top.
“Guy: You can’t go around killing people just because you think they’re useless.
Bruno: Oh, what’s a life or two? Some people are better off dead, Guy. Take your — wife and my father, for instance. It reminds me of a wonderful idea had once. I used to put myself to sleep at night — figuring it out. Now, let’s say you want to get rid of your wife.
Guy: Why?
Bruno: Let’s say she refuses to give you a divorce — [raises a finger and stops Guy’s protest] Let’s say. You’d be afraid to kill her because you’d get caught. And what would trip you up? Motive. Now here’s the plan…
Guy: I’m afraid I haven’t time to listen.
Bruno: It’s so simple, too. A couple of fellows meet accidentally, like you and me. No connection between them at all. Never saw each other before. Each of them has somebody he’d like to get rid of, but he can’t murder the person he wants to get rid of. He’ll get caught. So they swap murders.
Guy: Swap murders?
Bruno: Each fellow does the other fellow’s murder. Then there is nothing to connect them. The one who had the motive isn’t there. Each fellow murders a total stranger. Like you do my murder and I do yours.
Guy: We’re coming into my station.
Bruno: For example, your wife, my father. Criss-cross.”—Alfred Hitchcock’s “Strangers On a Train”, 1951
Like Hitchcock’s “Strangers”, the Occupation Government and Big Tech are swapping crimes.
Big Tech does the Political Censorship that is forbidden to the Regime, and the Regime looks the other way while Big Tech engages in monopoly, commits business fraud, spies on Americans and cuddles up to dictatorships–other dictatorships, I mean.
Social Media Monopolies essentially serve as public utilities today, much like telephone and telegraph companies once did. We broke up AT&T and Ma Bell–and they never tried to censor anybody. We trust-busted Standard Oil, but not even John D. Rockefeller kept a file on everybody on the planet like these megalomaniacs do.
They claim to be neutral bulletin boards when it helps them–and a Letters to the Editor-page when that helps them. Like a bi-Backstreet Boy, “They want it both ways.” Tell me why.
And, for the record, Benito, this Corporate/State Incest is the textbook definition of “Fascism”.
Grazi, Obama.
Rest in the Vine: “Why I’m Suing Big Tech” by True President Donald J. Trump
Excellent comment was watching Hitchcock last weekend with my left tilting mostly apolitical (everyone’s bad) gf. I found something today on a Twitter feed very impressed. It fits right in with this lawsuit. If you ever have anyone enquire as to why MAGA think and feel the way we do send them this. I think it’s a very helpful 20 bulletin roadmap into our psyche.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1413165168956088321.html
“a) The entrenched bureaucracy & security state subverted Trump from Day 1, b) The press is part of the operation, c) Election rules were changed, d) Big Tech censors opposition, e) Political violence is legitimized & encouraged, f) Trump is banned from social media. 34/x
They were led down some rabbit holes, but they are absolutely right that their gov’t is monopolized by a Regime that believes they are beneath representation, and will observe no limits to keep them getting it. Trump fans should be happy he lost; it might’ve kept him alive. /end ”
Selah.
These days the F.B.I. uses this technique to make Terrorists.
Just a quick comment on the gf. Not sure how you can overlook her vacuous response to what is currently happening in our Country, and around the world.
I doubt that she’s “the one” for you. You owe it to your future children to do better.
Luke, great attachment! Truth will have its day. Thanks for posting. Sent it to my peeps!
Wow! Thank you for turning me on to this! Kind of just went down a rabbit hole. I’ve already subscribed to his (?) podcast.
That is a fantastic wrap up of the high points. Well done and thank you 🙂
Grazi!
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No political comments but rather a post of appreciation for giving me a good movie to watch tonight. Gotta love the beauty of the internet. And now the movie starts….
BTW, look for Sir Alfred with a bass or cello boarding the train at 1o:40. Always enjoy spotting his cameos.
Social media companies – the big ones – are operational arms of Intelligence under cover of being private commercial entities not subject to congressional or other government oversight. Increasingly most MSM outlets are the same, or if not most of their editors and chief writers are undercover agents.
I believe it is a mistake to view them as simple for-profit commercial enterprises.
While this works it way through the courts, we need to apply maximum pressure to our “elected” officials to end section 230.
…the silence is deafening (and revealing) from dc, for months.
meanwhile, a rally in the dc area is being planned for July 17th,
to raise awareness (to the apparent deaf ears)
of the selective loss of freedoms of those (politically) imprisoned – without a trial, for months, since Jan.6th .
(the (weaponized) legal process is the punishment…? Flynn, and others, know it well… )
[ find out more from Matt Braynard
https://rumble.com/vjn0ov-episode-1084-the-left-has-dominated-community-organizing-and-now-its-up-to-.html ]
Love thy neighbors
“The U.S. Constitution has no standing.” – SCOTUS
It is what they told TX and the other suing states when it is the ONLY court of jurisdiction when there are arguments between states…I would say one state violating the US Constitution in order to affect a national election that has an influence on every American can only be heard by SCOTUS…instead they demurred
COWARDS!!
When FaceBoot, Googooplex and Twatter started censoring valid scientific information about Ivermectin and the other therapeutics, that is when they crossed the line. That is when political partisans became mass murderers.
Bingo!
Platform or publisher. Choose one.
they chose to be your god and to take your life by any means possible.
no court is winnable. no branch is aligned with you.
only States can fight back, and only a few. from there, all the people in the wrong states are behind enemy lines.
Agreed WB, I am fortunate that I don’t have to move. Have a great governor and conservative leadership. I know it may seem impossible for you to pick up and move but I strongly urge you to remove yourself while the choice is still your own. An example would be a state like PA. It’s pretty traditional except for the cities which is typical.
The left if not stopped soon will become more paranoid and more tyrannical. I highly doubt we have seen the last of their behavior to incite violence. God forbid you ever have to defend yourself from one of their so called peaceful protestors. Even in a state such as FL should that happen I revert your memory back to Bubba W and the garage noose caper. If you have a blue governor you will be handed to the FEDs offer you as a willing sacrifice to the mob. It’s really going to depend on how bad things get. I’m sorry to be a Negative Nancy but we may be in for rough times. Get away from the Blue Hives now. Make Red States REDDER.
i agree. and the Red State strong holds will have to find a way to help Blue State Americans stuck across enemy lines.
I applaud my *Real President Donald Trump * again. Thank God he instituted this lawsuit against these evil un American cretins. God bless President Trump!
Apparently, 2 Obama-appointed judges and 1 G W Bush-appointed have been chosen to hear Trump’s lawsuits.
Are you serious? No Justice is possible, then.
DNC, RNC, ABC, or any other alphabet soup they wish to call themselves. None of them will do anything to restore full freedom to the American people because they are all corrupt! Did anyone throw their arms up in horror when Mattis was in talks with Bezos for the military cloud computing contract? What does Bezos know about anything other than screwing mom and pop shops, and assisting China?
I worry daily about the safety of Trump, the REAL 46. We all saw what they did to JFK, and we see daily what they do to people who don’t tow the line.
They have been given too much power, and that power is hard to take away when you can buy small nations with your bank account.
you ofc mean the REAL 45….since it was a continuation the number of his presidency does not change
Margot Cleveland cracks the code – President Trump won Georgia
This just based on illegal votes cast in state – not computer crimes, fake ballots, etc.
“While this evidence does not change the fact that Joe Biden is our president, all Americans who genuinely care about free and fair elections and the disenfranchisement of voters should demand both transparency and solutions to prevent a repeat in future elections.”
comments like that from Margot makes me not give a shit what she says. Why did she have to say we got CHEATED but its okay, we will let them have this election?
“Why did she have to say we got CHEATED but its okay, we will let them have this election?”
She said that because it’s true and correct.
There are a large number here who don’t understand that the election is not reversible and The Don cannot be re-annointed President, regardless of what fraud is found by these audits.
There is no legal way back. SCOTUS told us long ago that after Inauguration it will brook no more argument. Try approaching SCOTUS with audit results demonstrating fraud and it will simply refuse to hear those arguments. The end.
Talk about slow learners…..
Let’s see, large numbers here believe fraud was committed and President Trump will be back in the Whitehouse after the audits prove all the fraud.
Lo and behold you are the great legal mind to come here and educate us how Illegitimate Biden is our reigning King and we can do nothing.
You are the damn slow learner
I don’t know why PDJT would use a paid site to deliver an important Op-ED lik this but it was well written. Thanks to CTH for posting it.
I love the man but this is too little too late. I have no social media since I was banned from twitter for telling an antifa account that our side won’t be passive forever. If he’d fixed 230 exemptions he would have had the votes to overcome the obvious fraud. He gained with every demographic but white men. He lost 5% of what he got in 2016. As I said I love the man but I think DeSantis is the future.
It was up to the legislature to fix or rescind 230. Now you know why it was never removed.
The House and Senate was more fixated on being re-elected, than being representatives in a representative Republic!
I’m aware that Carlson is detested here for reasons of non-conformity with the narrative.
But this may be the best thing written since the election…..
https://youtu.be/ZTeHxvQbk7g
The Best Explanation for Why So Many Trump Supporters Believe the 2020 Election Was ‘Stolen’
https://trendingpolitics.com/the-best-explanation-for-why-so-many-trump-supporters-believe-the-2020-election-was-stolen-knab/#.YOjVKSIEYcM.facebook
A brilliant Twitter thread perfectly explains what drives today’s conservative
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/07/a_brilliant_twitter_thread_perfectly_explains_what_drives_todays_conservatives.html
Incredibly well written Twitter thread, most deserving of a national audience, and that just happened thanks to Tucker.
No he is detested because of his actions after the election period.
Actions speak louder than words.
Not conforming with your so called imagined narrative is not it.
Everyone at Fox fell right in line with the steal, including little precious
Yawn. Nothing the media said mattered one little bit after the election….. it was about Courts not hearing poorly prepared cases because it was too early for the evidence to be collected, SCOTUS refusing to intervene and State Republican Houses who could have refused to certify the results….Carlson , Fox et al were irrelevant. You wanted conformity and were dismayed when you didn’t get it.
Way to deflect troll. You had to change the subject
Oh, an IQ problem.
Thank You for providing this important message from President Trump. I haven’t seen his words about it anywhere else.
President Trump is doing Right Thing against CCP socialism Big Tech’s,
Thank You president Trump and God Bless you and legal Team,
Dismantle the entire administrative state and end their unionization. Limit wages and benefits of federal employees to the median income of the American people. Period. That includes eliminating pensions, capping retirement plans, health insurance benefits, etc. Make working for government suck. Make every persons identity who works in any capacity, directly or via contractor, known to we the people. Make their information publicly available and make those accountable for manipulating the trust of the American people pay a steep price when they step out of line. End the federal income tax and disperse the various necessary agencies throughout into different regions around the US. That’s a good start.
Finally someone nailed it. Thank you!
It is the bureaucracy. Political party elected people come and go. Some get to stay for a lifetime if they pander to the bureaucrats. Trump started cleaning up the federal government. They went after him with everything they had.
Same as with the tea party. Lois Lerner headed the attack on that one.
I say run it like the military.
President Trump uses lawfare against the communist.
Sundance makes sure we can see what President Trump is doing and most likely paying for, and it must be freaking big tech out. The presence of trolls confirms it.
Christopher Steele called Zuck, Dork and Puchy on a conference call and asked one simple question, “Will the firewall hold”?
All tech platforms need to give us the ability to select how long they can keep any of our communications. If any. The data itself should reside on each one of our devices where we own it and can remove it from the public square any time we want. The cloud is Satan incarnate. Nothing should reside on a cloud. Period. We should all have an accounting of how much revenue we each generate that is front and center and we should be able to profit share off of that revenue and be able to transfer and or sell our capacity to generate revenue to the highest bidder thus stripping these entities of much of the revenue and control of our information.
I’m not sure some people have picked up on something President Trump said in his opening remarks at the presser where he announced the lawsuit against Big Tech.
He said, with considerable force, that the rights embodied in the 1st Amendment are NOT granted by government. They are granted by God.
This is the bedrock issue in the lawsuit and is even more important than the other issues he described. It is the nuclear bomb in the whole case that the defendants cannot avoid.
All the ambulance-chasing lawyers who will flock to the defense, all the judges up to and including the Supreme Court, will be forced to acknowledge that they are the ones with ‘no standing’ because to do otherwise will be to claim that they are more powerful than God. They might even try to claim that though God does exist, he created governments to control His people on His behalf. That’s when the bomb goes off right under them.
Other issues such as Section 230 are of much lesser importance but still necessary.
The people will see this disgraceful charade play out and they, even those who have never been MAGA minded, will see the absurd arrogance of this and vote accordingly when next they can.
So, the defendants have no choice unless destroying their own party and slavishly protecting those who have poured billions into their pockets seems like a good plan to them.
Something tells me God and his emissary to the free world, President Trump, are going to win this, the most important victory for We The People since the Constitution was fully written to include the Amendments.
Once again Trump’s the only one that’s doing anything.
The censoring by big tech firms was a Unreported Campaign Contribution to Biden. No one seems to bring up this fact. In 2016-2017 we heard the phrase “unreported campaign contribution” in regard to Trump a gazillion times. Now, crickets
In light of Sundance expanding on his theme of our Intelligence Agencies being the Fourth Branch of Government,
and with regards to big tech in this entry, there is also this:
Bloomberg “Why BlackRock is now the fourth branch of government”
“As the worlds largest money manager Black Rock can do things the governments need right now.”
A woman from Norway put together this video that does an excellent job of graphically putting together what I am calling “The Pyramid of Power” in the financial world right now that impacts each of us every day of our lives.
I highly recommend it.
https://rumble.com/vjkayh-who-runs-the-world-blackrock-and-vanguard-global-elites-greatawakening.worl.html
https://www.projectveritas.com/news/watch-cnn-technical-director-charlie-chester-remains-silent-on-current/
Sounds like GETTR is off to a good start, despite initial bumps in the road:
https://gellerreport.com/2021/07/gettr-team-trumps-social-media-platform-claims-1m-users-joined-in-first-3-days.html/
I was habitually blocked, censored and shadow banned on fb, even sited I subscribed to few if anyone could ever see what I posted. I’m but a little tiny fish and could never sue these Elites. So Glad to see Trump is doing this. My Free Speech has been attacked and and limited and greatly blocked for 4+years on these Social sites. Yes I’m outspoken but that’s the passion, and love of God and Country.
Here we go again. Second verse, same as the first.
Are duplicitous advisors leading President Trump down the wrong path?
Attorney Robert Barnes discusses President Trump’s lawsuit against Big Tech and social media. Opines that the lawyers are not serving the President well and may have intentionally crafted the claims to fail. “Poison pilled.”