The purpose of the lawsuit against Twitter and FaceBook?

[kentuck]

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Former WH occupant, Donald Trump, announced a class-action lawsuit against the social media giants this morning. Does he really think he can win?

Or does he think he might negotiate a reasonable settlement with them?

If they will let him back on Twitter and Facebook, he will drop the class-action lawsuit?

Is that his plan?

Rather than go thru the costs of a long lawsuit, with all the negative PR, the two giants may agree to let him back on?

[hookaleft]

1. He has to get attention someway......

It is all just BS, he doesn't have a case.

[ScratchCat]

2. The current RW game plan is to pretend to be victims

of anyone and everyone. This is just a continuation of that coupled with Trump's desperation to stay in the news and raise money since he has no other source of income anymore. He knows the suit will not be heard and obviously they would never offer to let him back on in order to drop a frivolous suit.

[rickford66]

3. $$$$$$$$

[Chainfire]

4. He just needs to keep complaining about being a victim; oh poor abused Trump.

He is struggling to keep his name in the news and keep his 30% fired up. He can smell DeSantis coming up behind him and he is afraid of losing yet again. I expect the claims and the crying to get worse as time goes by. He is getting desperate.

Why's everybody always picking on me.....

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[Blue Owl]

5. The Slobfather needs to learn that actions have consequences

He repeatedly broke the rules and protocol of these platforms, and now he doesn't wanna pay the price... Such is the behavior of an entitled, spoiled egomaniac...

[Arazi]

6. It's to raise money. It's a grift

If you go to sign on to the class action lawsuit as he requested you're directed to a donation page.

The courts won't ever certify this as a real class action lawsuit.

#Traitor will never allow this to proceed to discovery.

It's a sham

[JCMach1]

7. He will raise money off of it

He won't pursue it, because he loose, bigly.

[fishwax]

8. I think it's mostly a pretense for fundraising

That and the attention (which, without access to Facebook and Twitter and the presidency, has been harder to come by, and which he no doubt desperately misses)

[gratuitous]

9. Class action?

What class of people is that? Lying-ass former presidents who were impeached twice? Pretty small class, that.

[Ocelot II]

10. Grifting and attention-grabbing.

The lawsuit will go nowhere for too many reasons to list here, and he knows that; but succeeding in court isn't the point. The point and the only purpose is to broadcast his grievances in order to raise money. The lawsuit will be kicked out of court as soon as a judge can get robed up, but the grifting will continue because the cult won't know it happened.

[rdking647]

11. the courts should sanction his lawyers for a frivolous lawsuit

[mahina]

12. That's just a side benefit

[GoCubsGo]

13. He has been trying to sue his way in and out of things all his life.

It's all he knows how to do, and this is nothing he hasn't been doing all along.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

14. Look who filed this lawsuit

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[LetMyPeopleVote]

15. Why Trump's 'class-action lawsuit' is so hard to take seriously

I agree with Steve Benen/ This is a fundraising stunt

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Complicating matters just a bit more, there have been related cases along these lines, and they've all failed: private social-media companies are not arms of the government, judges have ruled, and they have the authority to regulate content. Similarly, Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which protects companies from such lawsuits, still exists, Trump's incessant whining about the provision notwithstanding.

So why bother? Why go through the motions with a misguided public-relations stunt, rooted entirely in dubious claims and conspiracy theories that don't make any sense?

There's no great mystery here: "Before Mr. Trump was done speaking, both the National Republican Congressional Committee and the National Republican Senatorial Committee had sent text messages about the lawsuit and asked for contributions. Mr. Trump's political action committee sent its own solicitation shortly after the event ended. 'Donate NOW,' it said."

I don't doubt that many will fall for this. Republican voters who've been conditioned to believe that Twitter and Facebook are big meanies toward conservatives will likely grab their credit cards to show their support for Trump and this pointless exercise.

But that doesn't mean this lawsuit has merit; it means the opposite