Rep Nunes sues Twitter for Anti-Conservative Bias

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Twitter needs to be regulated as a public utility under common carrier laws.

It's time to strip these companies away from the individuals who control them now.

So Twitter should be a common carrier (and stripped of safe harbor protections to stop IP theft) but an ISP should not? Do you not realize the massive hypocrisy and contradictions inherent in those 3 "conservative" positions?

If an ISP is "curating" content then it should loose its safe harbor protections.

Says who? YouTube “curates” out all of the ISIS videos. Should they stop doing that? Facebook removed 1.1 million copies of the New Zealand killer’s video of the massacre of 50 people. Should they not do that?

Says the courts when dealing with the DMCA. In recent years the courts have ruled on provisions of the DMCA originally intended for ISPs and copyright infringement and applied them to social media, stripping them of safe harbor protections.

My personal opinion is that they should not delete the video, ugly as it may be. I am a free speech advocate and Facebook acts as a public square.

What’s your opinion of Nunes’s complaint?

[Anonymous]

The Nunes complaint is laughable given what the liar in chief posts every. single. day.

If Twitter would have banned the Dumpster our country would not be the laughingstock it is today.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Twitter needs to be regulated as a public utility under common carrier laws.

It's time to strip these companies away from the individuals who control them now.

So Twitter should be a common carrier (and stripped of safe harbor protections to stop IP theft) but an ISP should not? Do you not realize the massive hypocrisy and contradictions inherent in those 3 "conservative" positions?

If an ISP is "curating" content then it should loose its safe harbor protections.

If an ISP is selectively denying service to liberals (or conservatives), I hope we would ALL be up in arms.

Exactly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The Nunes complaint is laughable given what the liar in chief posts every. single. day.

If Twitter would have banned the Dumpster our country would not be the laughingstock it is today.

Trump has violated Twitter’s TOS hundreds of times at this point and yet he remains.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Nunes complaint is laughable given what the liar in chief posts every. single. day.

If Twitter would have banned the Dumpster our country would not be the laughingstock it is today.

Trump has violated Twitter’s TOS hundreds of times at this point and yet he remains.

He makes them a lot of money.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Nunes complaint is laughable given what the liar in chief posts every. single. day.

If Twitter would have banned the Dumpster our country would not be the laughingstock it is today.

Trump has violated Twitter’s TOS hundreds of times at this point and yet he remains.

Please stay on topic. Thank you. -OP

[Anonymous]

Nunes was a co-sponsor

https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/1179

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Twitter needs to be regulated as a public utility under common carrier laws.

It's time to strip these companies away from the individuals who control them now.

So Twitter should be a common carrier (and stripped of safe harbor protections to stop IP theft) but an ISP should not? Do you not realize the massive hypocrisy and contradictions inherent in those 3 "conservative" positions?

If an ISP is "curating" content then it should loose its safe harbor protections.

Zero rating, throttling and other forms of prioritizing content would thus equal curation.

[Anonymous]

It's not just what Twitter users have said.....

The most interesting part of this suit to me is the accusation that Twitter influenced the 2018 election by systematically censoring opposing viewpoints and totally "ignoring" lawful complaints of repeated abusive behavior.

The shadow banning accusation should be interesting since they have admitted to doing this in private, but will not admit to it publicly.
And, the accusations against Liz Mair are not just that she tweeting insults and defamatory tweets, but that the timing of her tweets and those from other accounts appears to show Mair was working with the Cow and Mom accounts.

The complaint also named "Devin Nunes’ Mom," "a person who, with Twitter’s consent, hijacked Nunes’ name, falsely impersonated Nunes’ mother, and created and maintained an account on Twitter (@DevinNunesMom) for the sole purpose of attacking, defaming, disparaging and demeaning Nunes."

Nunes lawyers' wrote, "In her endless barrage of tweets, Devin Nunes’ Mom maliciously attacked every aspect of Nunes’ character, honesty, integrity, ethics and fitness to perform his duties as a United States Congressman."

One tweet from the account, cited by the complaint, contained a crude drawing of Russian President Vladimir Putin, President Trump, and Nunes in a physically linked, symbiotic arrangement like the characters in the horror film "The Human Centipede (First Sequence)."

As of Monday afternoon, the @DevinNunesMom account was suspended by Twitter when Fox News tried to access it. The complaint stated that "Twitter only suspended the account in 2019 after Nunes’ real mother, Toni Dian Nunes, complained. ... Twitter permitted @DevinNunesMom, for instance, to tweet and retweet with impunity throughout 2018."

However, according to the complaint, "Twitter did nothing to investigate or review the defamation that appeared in plain view on its platform. Twitter consciously allowed the defamation of Nunes to continue" despite reports and purported reviews by Twitter's content moderators.

"As part of its agenda to squelch Nunes’ voice, cause him extreme pain and suffering, influence the 2018 Congressional election, and distract, intimidate and interfere with Nunes’ investigation into corruption and Russian involvement in the 2016 Presidential Election, Twitter did absolutely nothing," the complaint stated.

Another account named as a defendant was "Devin Nunes' Cow," or @DevinCow, which purportedly called Nunes a "treasonous cowpoke" and an "udder-ly worthless" criminal. The timing and substance of the tweets, according to Nunes' team, suggested that Mair was working jointly with @DevinCow and @DevinNunesMom accounts.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/nunes-files-bombshell-defamation-suit-against-twitter-seeks-250m-for-anti-conservative-shadow-bans-smears

[Anonymous]

Nunes is likely to win his 250 Million.

[Anonymous]

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Nunes is likely to win his 250 Million.

Incisive legal analysis.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Nunes is likely to win his 250 Million.

Seriously what are you smoking. Is it meth?

Here’s some background on the only lawyer Nunes could find to put together this bowl-clogging log.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The Nunes complaint is laughable given what the liar in chief posts every. single. day.

If Twitter would have banned the Dumpster our country would not be the laughingstock it is today.

Trump has violated Twitter’s TOS hundreds of times at this point and yet he remains.

Please stay on topic. Thank you. -OP

I would posit that Trump being on Twitter despite its so-called “conservative bias” is well within the topic of this thread, which is Devin Nunes suing Twitter purportedly for “anti-conservative bias.”

[Anonymous]

The only outcome of Devin Nunes' lawsuit is that millions of people who never saw these tweets get to read them for the first time and delight in knowing that, by his own admission, it caused him "extreme pain and suffering".

[Anonymous]

Poor Twitter.