Supreme Court case could follow Facebook’s Trump ban; Clarence Thomas threw down the gauntlet

Biotech entrepreneur and author Vivek Ramaswamy said Monday he believes former President Donald Trump’s ban from Facebook has produced a “groundbreaking legal theory” that could ultimately be decided by the U.S. Supreme Court.

In an interview with “Fox & Friends,” Ramaswamy, author of “Woke, Inc.,” responded to comments by Michael McConnell, the co-chairman of the Facebook Oversight Board who criticized the platform’s banning of the former president, which he characterized as a violation of the company’s own rules.

“They were not justified in taking him down indefinitely, they did not provide any reasons for that,” McConnell said in a clip played by “Fox & Friends” co-host Steve Doocy. “That was wrong…their rules are a shambles. They are not transparent. They are unclear. They are internally inconsistent.”


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Half the country wants an alternative to all the left wing social media sites.
We need alternatives to Amazon and Google internet services.

Are the wealthy conservatives really, all that afraid of losing their liberal friends?

From the OP article:

“The [Facebook] Board found that, in maintaining an unfounded narrative of electoral fraud and persistent calls to action, Mr. Trump created an environment where a serious risk of violence was possible,” the board said in a statement.

How's that for sound reasoning?  "The guy might could ought possibly make something happen in the future."


That's the best these guys got?  


Oh, but keep that narrative going, BPR!

The platform booted Trump a day after some of his supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol Building,

Makes ya want to slap somebody up 'side the had - HARD.


But at least BPR included the most pertinent part:

Nevertheless, Ramaswamy believes the former president may have a court cause worthy of the nation’s highest legal jurisdiction.
“President Trump should take this case—not to Facebook’s sham corporate Supreme Court—he should take it to the real U.S. Supreme Court. And I actually think he has a potentially groundbreaking legal theory,” he said.
“Facts are on his side, where these companies aren’t like normal private companies. They’re effectively doing the bidding of Democrats in Congress who have threatened them with regulation and reprisal if they don’t go out and censor content that they, as Democrats, don’t want to see and they give them Section 230 immunity and go out and do it,” Ramaswamy, who has a law degree from Yale, continued.
“So, that’s a combination of a stick and a carrot that turns this private action into really state-like action that’s governed by the First Amendment,” he added.

And THAT, my good friends, is the major problem with these social networks.  They're government-run, NOT your basic privately-run business your grandma grew up with.  Or even you, for that matter.

Carolina73 wrote:Half the country wants an alternative to all the left wing social media sites.
We need alternatives to Amazon and Google internet services.

Are the wealthy conservatives really, all that afraid of losing their liberal friends?

@Carolina73, I don't know if Books a Million or Barnes & Noble are any better than Amazon, but that's where I go to purchase books.  (I refuse to use Amazon for any purchases.  There's nothing I need that badly.)

I don't remember the last time I used google.  Years ago.  There's Bing, DuckDuckGo, and all sorts of alternatives out there.  Some time back, someone was kind enough to turn me on to Smartpage.

2cent wrote:

Carolina73 wrote:Half the country wants an alternative to all the left wing social media sites.
We need alternatives to Amazon and Google internet services.

Are the wealthy conservatives really, all that afraid of losing their liberal friends?

@Carolina73, I don't know if Books a Million or Barnes & Noble are any better than Amazon, but that's where I go to purchase books.  (I refuse to use Amazon for any purchases.  There's nothing I need that badly.)

I don't remember the last time I used google.  Years ago.  There's Bing, DuckDuckGo, and all sorts of alternatives out there.  Some time back, someone was kind enough to turn me on to Smartpage.

I have been pretty good. i cancelled Amazon and have bought nothing from them. I went to Walmart once or twice but only for food. I admit to using Google Maps and YouTube for lack of a good alternative but not the search engine. I watch only college sports now.

I don't know about you but it really is not an imposition to not support those that try to cancel my beliefs.

I'd like to know what horrible thing Walmart has done.  Every time someone connects them to some terrible act, it ends up being completely innocuous.