President Donald Trump on Wednesday threatened that Republicans will try to close down social media platforms a day after Twitter, for the first time, added a fact check to two of his tweets, ones concerning his unsubstantiated claims about widespread mail-in voting fraud.
Trump, in a tweet not specifically naming any platforms, said that “Republicans feel that Social Media Platforms totally silence conservative voices. We will strongly regulate, or close them down, before we can ever allow this to happen.”
A few hours later, the president continued his tirade, singling out Twitter, saying that everything “we have being saying about them (and their other compatriots) is correct ” and that there will be “Big action to follow.”
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Laurence Tribe
Trump’s statement that Twitter, a private company, is abridging his First Amendment freedom of speech by tagging his wild tweets about write-in voter fraud as misleading is totally absurd and legally illiterate. This thread explains why. 1. The First Amendment limits only the Government, not private entities like Twitter.
2. Anyway, Twitter’s tagging of Trump’s claims about write-in voting is itself absolutely protected under the First Amendment as an expression of opinion.
3. In addition, Twitter’s tagging, even insofar as it can be construed as a factual statement, is shielded by the defense of truth: the claim that Trump’s tweets about massive write-in voter fraud are at best extremely misleading and at worst downright lies is demonstrably true.
U sound almost as crazy as the real Lawrence tribe
Shut ’em all down. Wipe ’em out. Who needs ’em?
And matzav and all the others with fake news and sensationalist headlines
ah I get it ‘the only free speech is my speech’ is that your sentiment?