Federal judge dismisses Trump’s lawsuit against Twitter

San Francisco federal district court Judge James Donato, threw it Donald Trump’s lawsuit against Twitter last year to get his account back. The social network permanently suspended the former president’s account after his supporters raided the Capitol in January 2021. announcementTwitter specifically cited two of its tweets on January 6 last year, which it believes are “highly likely to encourage and inspire people to repeat criminal acts that took place in the US Capitol.”

Trump filed suit in October, seeking injunctive relief over the ban and arguing that the Act violated his First Amendment rights. Donato disagreed and to manage That Twitter is a private company. “The First Amendment applies only to government speech abbreviations,” he explained, “not to acronyms allegedly made by private companies.” The judge also dismissed the notion that the social network acted as a government agency after being pressured by Trump’s opponents, thereby violating the First Amendment in banning the former President.

In his case, Trump asked the judge to rule on the federal Communications Ethics Act, which states that online service providers such as Twitter cannot be held unconstitutionally responsible for content posted by users. The judge also dismissed that claim and ruled that the former President had no legal basis to challenge Section 230 of the CDA. Trump is a known critic of Section 230 and has proposed limiting the protections social media platforms have during his tenure.

The former President was an avid Twitter user before he was impeached, and after he was banned, he launched his own social network called Truth Social. just said CNBC He said that even if Elon Musk reversed his suspension, he would not return to Twitter and would instead stay on Truth Social. According to a recent report by Daily MonsterTruth Social has 513,000 daily active users, compared to Twitter’s 217 million.