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Laura Loomer is a fighter for justice, freedom and true glory. The problem is that her platform is really confusing, as she claims that Moslems should be silenced but she shouldn’t be silenced because she’s Jewish. She says that Jews have a right to free speech because of the Holocaust.
Of course, that isn’t a part of her lawsuit, but she’s said that enough times in public that it is going to come up in any lawsuit. It will also come up that she herself has worked to engage in silencing free speech, including getting a Daily Stormer Discord channel shut down (back when we were unaware about the agenda of Discord).
All she ever talks about is being Jewish.
Her own opposition to free speech makes her a very imperfect vessel for promoting a free speech agenda.
A federal appeals court is rejecting claims that tech companies like Facebook, Google, Twitter and Apple have conspired to suppress conservative viewpoints on their platforms.
A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit on Wednesday affirmed the dismissal of a lawsuit that was filed by the conservative legal organization Freedom Watch and far-right activist Laura Loomer. Freedom Watch and Loomer alleged that the Silicon Valley giants were coordinating together to silence conservative viewpoints and that they were violating the First Amendment and antitrust policies.
“The district court dismissed the complaint, holding that Freedom Watch had standing to sue but failed to allege colorable legal claims,” the judges wrote in their decision. “On appeal, we reach the same conclusion.”
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The judges concluded that Freedom Watch failed to offer a satisfactory First Amendment claim against the tech companies, noting that “in general, the First Amendment ‘prohibits only governmental abridgment of speech.'”
“Freedom Watch fails to point to additional facts indicating that these platforms are engaged in state action and thus fails to state a viable First Amendment claim,” the judges wrote.
They also concluded that the legal group failed to provide enough evidence that the tech companies were violating the Sherman Antitrust Act.
The decision came down as President Trump and other Republican lawmakers voiced outrage over Twitter’s decision to fact check tweets the president sent about mail-in voting this week. In response, Trump alleged that social media platforms “totally silence” conservative views and threatened to “strongly regulate, or close them down” altogether.
“Twitter has now shown that everything we have been saying about them (and their other compatriots) is correct,” Trump tweeted. “Big action to follow!”
Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) also sent a letter to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey on Wednesday questioning whether the company should continue to receive immunity from publisher liability under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.
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Freedom Watch’s lawsuit, which was filed in 2018, claimed that illegal coordination from the tech giants was responsible for a “complete halt” to the group’s growth and Loomer’s 30-day ban from some social media platforms, Bloomberg News reported. The bans were implemented after Loomer said Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) favored Sharia law and was “anti-Jewish.”
Twitter and Facebook have since permanently suspended Loomer from their platforms.
Freedom Watch founder Larry Klayman told Politico that Wednesday’s decision was “outrageous” and that he’d move to have the case reheard.
“We’re going to obviously move for en banc reconsideration and go to the Supremes, if we have to,” he said. “Obviously, it’s a very political issue. None of those judges particularly care for [President Trump]. It looked like they rushed the decision off their desk to make a point.”
Obviously, I wish Ms. Loomer only the best, despite the issues I’ve had with her in the past.
But I don’t see anything happening here. It seems to just be another publicity stunt, Loomer sucking whatever she can out of her previous fame as a Twitter personality.
All of these people who became famous Twitter personalities during the 2016 election apparently expected that they would be famous for the rest of their lives. However, even those who were not banned from Twitter – Mike Cernovich and Jack Posobiec, to name two – have failed to become normal media figures.
Laura Loomer is also running for Congress right now, another stupid publicity stunt.
Look at this promotional photo she’s using for her campaign.
She has a horrible hunched back, which I’m sure she’s self-conscious about (I would be too!), but that stretched neck is almost more grotesque.
I think MILO is also on some kind of quest for revenge against Twitter. But nothing associated with any of these toxic, fame-sucking personalities is ever going to lead to any single positive outcome.
If we are going to get free speech on the internet returned to us, it is going to have to be the government that does it. A civil lawsuit is not going to do it. And clearly, the government isn’t going to do it either. Donald Trump is being openly bullied by these people now, as they demonstrate that he isn’t going to do anything.
