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Conservative Activists Lose Lawsuit That Accused Twitter, Google and Facebook of Censorship
BoringButVeryNastyHat RetweetedLoomer gets Loomered in court.
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Conservative Activists Lose Lawsuit That Accused Twitter, Google and Facebook of Censorship
COLIN KALMBACHER May 27th, 2020, 1:06 pm
A federal court dismissed activist Laura Loomer’s lawsuit against several tech platforms on Wednesday. The complaint alleged a far-flung conspiracy to censor conservative speech.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit added insult to injury by cavalierly noting at the outset that “the issues” at stake in the original lawsuit “do not warrant a published opinion.”
In 2018, Loomer and Freedom Watch, a non-profit and right-wing legal advocacy organization founded and run by attorney Larry Klayman, sued Google, Facebook, Twitter and Apple over allegations that the platforms had violated the First Amendment, the Sherman Antitrust Act and the District of Columbia Human Rights Act.
Specifically, the duo alleged that those platforms worked together to “intentionally and willfully suppress politically conservative content.”
The district court found that the plaintiffs “failed to tie [their] concerns to colorable legal claims” and dismissed the lawsuit.
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COLIN KALMBACHER May 27th, 2020, 1:06 pm
A federal court dismissed activist Laura Loomer’s lawsuit against several tech platforms on Wednesday. The complaint alleged a far-flung conspiracy to censor conservative speech.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit added insult to injury by cavalierly noting at the outset that “the issues” at stake in the original lawsuit “do not warrant a published opinion.”
In 2018, Loomer and Freedom Watch, a non-profit and right-wing legal advocacy organization founded and run by attorney Larry Klayman, sued Google, Facebook, Twitter and Apple over allegations that the platforms had violated the First Amendment, the Sherman Antitrust Act and the District of Columbia Human Rights Act.
Specifically, the duo alleged that those platforms worked together to “intentionally and willfully suppress politically conservative content.”
The district court found that the plaintiffs “failed to tie [their] concerns to colorable legal claims” and dismissed the lawsuit.
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Its hard to get smacked down worse than that.
