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Google, Twitter, Facebook, Apple slapped with class-action lawsuit over conservative censorship
Fox Business ^ | September 04, 2018 | Julia Limitone

Posted on 09/05/2018 5:27:13 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

Social Media and search giants are being hit with a class-action lawsuit from a pro-Trump group who claims that they conspired against Conservatives.

Freedom Watch, which promotes right to privacy among other causes, claims that Facebook, Google, Twitter and Apple violated antitrust laws.

“Our YouTube account on Google never gets above 49 thousand,” said Larry Klayman, the group’s founder, during an interview on FOX Business’ “Varney & Co.” on Tuesday. “It goes up, it goes down. That’s been going on for about six months,” he claimed while adding that other conservative groups and interests are also experiencing the same issues.

Klayman, a former antitrust lawyer who helped break up AT&T’s telephone monopoly during the Regan administration, also alleged the tech companies collaborated to restrain trade.

“There’s also a concept of conscious parallelism,” he said. “When companies move in tandem in parallel fashion that do the same thing that can be restraint of trade. So we believe there’s an actual agreement between these leftist owned media giants like Google, Twitter, YouTube etc.,” he explained.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: antitrust; apple; censorship; dnctalkingpoint; dnctalkingpoints; facebook; freedomwatch; google; internet; larryklayman; lawsuit; liberalfascism; mediawingofthednc; newmedia; partisanmediashills; presstitutes; smearmachine; socialmedia; twitter; youtube
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To: Envisioning
We really need a conservative Consortium of service providers. Link them all together in a easy to remember website. Something like nofakenewsbias.com. then at the drop of a hat, President Trump could tweet or suggest during a press conference for his base to check out this website. “We can act as one voice. Where we go one, we go all!” Imagine the CEO panic if 10-20 million users literally deleted their account from Twitter Facebook at one time. Stock prices could plunge and you could see these leftists being kicked out the door.
41 posted on 09/05/2018 7:18:32 AM PDT by BOBWADE (RINOs suck)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

This could bring in the SEC and the FCC.


42 posted on 09/05/2018 7:31:45 AM PDT by Biggirl ("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
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To: UCANSEE2; Liz

This picture tells everything. And Valeria Jarret is hidden in the picture behind Zuck.

The woman in black with her back to us is a spouse of one of the others. I forget who. Liz has a full seating chart.


43 posted on 09/05/2018 7:43:38 AM PDT by poconopundit (MAGA... Get the Spirit. Grow your community. Focus on your Life's Work. Empower the Young.)
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To: All

Praise be to God!


44 posted on 09/05/2018 7:49:48 AM PDT by veracious (UN=OIC=Islam ; Dems may change USAgov completely, just amend USConstitution)
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To: Cletus.D.Yokel

Yes. Companies and individuals are basically forced into the cloud these days with very little understanding of what it is.

When it all becomes cloud based, who wins? Whomever has the data. Scary times we live in.


45 posted on 09/05/2018 7:54:13 AM PDT by dubyagee ("I can't complain, but sometimes I still do.")
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To: poconopundit
Michael LaVaughn Robinson isn't shown in the photo, because he's under the table providing services as is his wont.
46 posted on 09/05/2018 8:13:56 AM PDT by ASA Vet (Make American Intelligence Great Again.)
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To: z3n

I think that stifling of competition and creating impossible barriers to entry for opposing thought might be a way to attack them. You’re right, as a business they should be able to associate with whom they choose, but if they actively squelch the ability of others to create competing services, then I think antitrust law must surely apply.

Spoken as a layman and ready to be corrected.

Oh, and if it turns out they are wholly pwn3d and operated by the C_A, then I think all their code should be made open source.


47 posted on 09/05/2018 8:17:06 AM PDT by ichabod1 (He's a vindictive SOB but he's *our* vindictive SOB.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Interesting. And China just Shut F@cebook Down right before the were supposed to go-live with a Chinese Fakebook. Methinks Apple and Suckbook don’t play well together.


48 posted on 09/05/2018 8:20:57 AM PDT by ichabod1 (He's a vindictive SOB but he's *our* vindictive SOB.)
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To: DesertRhino

Jeff Sessions ate at a local Mexican place and the owner got death threats, threats to burn the building down, threats to shut him down. Nasty nasty crop o’ communiss we’re dealing with this time.


49 posted on 09/05/2018 8:22:46 AM PDT by ichabod1 (He's a vindictive SOB but he's *our* vindictive SOB.)
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To: Envisioning

It’s because communists are inherently immoral animals. To them their ends justify any means.


50 posted on 09/05/2018 8:24:40 AM PDT by ichabod1 (He's a vindictive SOB but he's *our* vindictive SOB.)
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To: CIB-173RDABN

Not if they are a publicly traded company and offer their stock as an investment in as an ‘internet service provider’ while, in fact, are a content provider that manipulates, censors and shifts its focus on one political spectrum versus a another. They violate the terms of their stock offering and violate terms of free trade.


51 posted on 09/05/2018 8:26:58 AM PDT by Lagmeister ( false prophets shall rise, and shall show signs and wonders Mark 13:22)
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To: rlmorel

Azure, AWS or other cloud vendors don’t do politics or social media per se. It’s really about running stuff, like virtual machines, database and apps on their hardware instead of your own. So I don’t think Azure can be tied in to FaceBook, Twitter or even Google Search.

Microsoft Azure also has a separate Government segment. It can be used by US DoD, Fed, state and locals govs but it does not interact with commercial Internet side. It’s isolated for security reasons, not politics or social media.

The separate Azure China realm is similar to Azure Government.

But sure enough, Microsoft is full of SJWs and would repress or silence conservatives in a heartbeat. I KNOW. It’s happened to me. I worked/contract for them. I’m from Alabama. You should hear the grief I get every time I’m in Redmond. The only people you can be socially crass and prejudice to are Southerners.

In their numerous cafeterias, every TV blares MSNBC like CNN at airports...

If they knew I was a FReeper and Trump supporter I’d probably lose my contracts, no bull.


52 posted on 09/05/2018 8:31:49 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! (Vote GOP this November. Take two friends to vote with you!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Since the use of any of the online services is voluntary and since all are private organizations/corprations, the law suit has no merit.

Decisions as to how their business is conducted is to be established by their boards of directors.

To change the behavior, control of the boards must be obtained


53 posted on 09/05/2018 8:35:33 AM PDT by bert ((KE. N.P. N.C. +12) Muller..... conspiracy to over throw the government)
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To: Whenifhow; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; 2ndDivisionVet; azishot; ...

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54 posted on 09/05/2018 8:35:40 AM PDT by bitt (We know not what course others may take, but as for me, Give me Liberty, or Give me Death!)
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To: bitt

Good!! About time someone did this.


55 posted on 09/05/2018 8:44:19 AM PDT by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: bert

These companies are larger than most countries. They are not merely “private organizations.” They are the corporate equivalent of nation-states.

Plus, they played a game of bait-and-switch, luring conservatives into being dependent upon them for communication, then pulling the rug out from under them as an election approaches.

That’s “election meddling,” which they claim is a crime when it is done by “Russians.”

If they want to kick us off, do it AFTER the election so we have plenty of time to replace them before the next election.


56 posted on 09/05/2018 8:56:27 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (<img src="http://i.imgur.com/WukZwJP.gif"> zXSEP5Z, Audt7QO. xnKL3lW, RZ9yuyQ. XywCCJd, zQ9Ghyq.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum; governsleastgovernsbest
Social Media and search giants are being hit with a class-action lawsuit from a pro-Trump group who claims that they conspired against Conservatives.

Ping your lists - lots of us might want to sign on for this one...

57 posted on 09/05/2018 8:56:27 AM PDT by GOPJ (Republicans act like they're at a country club- Democrats like they're at a boxing match. Starboard)
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To: nwrep
"Klayman will lose win again."

Corrected your sentence for spelling and punctuation.

58 posted on 09/05/2018 9:25:13 AM PDT by Lazamataz (On future maps, I suggest we remove the word "California" and substitute "Open-Air Asylum".)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Neverthe less, regardless of size, they are corporations that offer a service. They promulgate rules for that service.

If you use their service you abide by their rules. You can not use lawyers to change their rules.


59 posted on 09/05/2018 10:12:06 AM PDT by bert ((KE. N.P. Neverthe less, they are co N.C. +12) Muller..... conspiracy to over throw the government)
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To: Drew68
I understand your point of view (I think). I don't think there is a easy solution. Personally, I am just against getting the government involved. Everything they touch goes to crap, one of the few things where that works out is the military where everything they touch is supposed to turn to crap...(just making a joke, but you know what I mean)

I read a good article today at American Thinker titled A Solution to Internet Tyranny which is kind of how I have viewed the problem for some time.

The author makes the distinction between a "Platform" and a "Publisher", and does it in a way I find kind of attractive, and spells out why Twitter, YouTube, and others are, and should be "Platforms" and why the distinction is important.

I read it, and felt it went somewhere down the middle between your view and mine (if I understand your view correctly) and seemed to be able to straddle it in a way that worked for me.

The author states: "...The simple technique that can be used to end the censorship is to have DoJ interpret existing law, or for Congress to pass a law, stating that any Internet site that controls its content for any reason other than criminal activity is a publisher, not a platform..."

Of course, anyone with an ounce of skepticism might look at that and say that the rub is deciding what is "criminal activity", but given that most of us here (though not all) already look at things such as speech as non-criminal.

Most real conservatives tend to look at someone who says "I hate minority X, and don't think they are worthy of this or that" and think "I don't agree with that, but he has the right to say it" because we abhor the concept of "Thought Crimes" or "Hate Crimes". Leftists, on the other hand, have shown great enthusiasm for those kind of things. That said, I still think it makes the cleavage point easier. Saying "I think minority X sucks" is quite easily distinguishable from "I want to kill minority X".

Granted, I am not thrilled about harnessing the power of Land Sharks (Lawyers) since we already live in a highly litigious society, but on the other hand, it does harness the profit motive in a way that might cause those tech giants give thought to what they are doing.

If you get a chance, I would be interested to hear your views on the linked article. I think this is a very difficult issue, and I am still at the stage where I am cogitating on it and trying to absorb how other people feel about it.

I don't want to address the issue of an unnatural proliferation of the Spotted Blotworm (Internet censorship) by bringing in a foreign animal like the Striped Laxtrax Wasp (Government intrusion) that eats them, only to discover the Striped Laxtrax are much more destructive and harder to eradicate.

60 posted on 09/05/2018 11:20:06 AM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists: They believe in the "Invisible Hand" only when it is guided by government.)
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