Trump sues Facebook, Twitter and Google for censorship

The 45th President of the United States, Donald Trump, has announced that he will lead a censorship lawsuit against Twitter, Facebook and Google, the three technology companies that removed him from their platforms after a mob of his supporters stormed the Capitol on January 6. Writes about this Fox News.

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The lawsuit will be a class trial, in which Trump will be the main plaintiff, claiming that he was censored by companies. He spoke about a lawsuit at his golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey.

“I stand before you to announce a very important event for our freedom and freedom of speech,” Trump said. “Together with the America First Policy Institute, I am filing a class action lawsuit against major tech giants, including Facebook, Google and Twitter, and their executives.”

“There is no better proof that Big Tech is out of control than the fact that they blocked the then-President of the United States,” Trump added. “If they can do it to me, they can do it to anyone.”

Twitter, YouTube, and Facebook have blocked Trump over his false claims that the presidential election was rigged and claimed he contributed to the January 6 Capitol violence.

"After carefully reviewing recent tweets from the @realDonaldTrump account and the context around them—particularly how they are being received and interpreted on Twitter and beyond—we have permanently suspended the account due to the risk of further incitement of violence," Twitter wrote about your decision.

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But Republicans and Trump himself have argued that these companies are unfairly censoring conservatives, and also stressed that, for example, dictators can still post on Twitter.

Trump said the lawsuit would be filed in the Southern District of Florida seeking an "injunction" against the "censorship of the American people." On Wednesday, June 7, three separate complaints were filed in Miami federal court on Trump's behalf, one against each social media giant.

“Even though social media companies are officially private entities, they use Section 230, which essentially makes them a government entity and protects them from liability,” Trump said. “Essentially a huge government subsidy, these companies have been recruited, coerced and armed by government agencies to become agents of illegal, unconstitutional censorship.”

Trump called social media "the de facto censorship lever of the US government."

He added that “this was especially clear during the pandemic,” citing a policy of avoiding controversy between health experts and the fact that these companies were hiding information that the coronavirus originated at the Wuhan Institute of Virology.

Shoshana Weissmann of the R Street Institute, which supports a clear reading of Section 230 to provide broad protections to tech companies, rebutted Trump's comments. Weissmann said the idea that tech companies "benefit from a law that prevents them from being private is stupid."

“The government can't wave a wand and say, 'You're now public companies,'” she added. “Government pressure on companies doesn’t magically turn them into statesmen either.”

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“This is a complete misunderstanding of how the law works,” Weissmann said.

Trump's lawsuit will be led by the America First Policy Institute (AFPI), a nonprofit run by several allies and people from the Trump administration.

“It’s no surprise that they want to repeal the First Amendment,” Rollins said of “progressives” and “elites.”

The First Amendment ensures that the US Congress will not: endorse any religion or endorse a state religion; prohibit free religion; encroach on freedom of speech; encroach on freedom of the press; restrict freedom of assembly, restrict the right of the people to petition the government to resolve complaints.

“They don't advocate for abolition, but they do advocate for making it meaningless. Nowhere is this more evident than the suppression of First Amendment rights online,” she continued.

AFPI's Pam Bondi, meanwhile, said the lawsuit concerns not only conservatives who believe they have been treated unfairly, but also the protection of others.

“This is not just for conservatives, this is for our media, this is for Democrats and even progressives whose speech should be protected by the First Amendment,” she said.

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