Trump Says He Is Suing Facebook, Google and Twitter for Alleged Censorship

Re:Trump Says He Is Suing Facebook, Google and Twitter for A... by neom on Wednesday July 07, 2021 @02:00PM (#27763985)

If you're curious to hear him outline it in his own words: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nil5_AI0fWs

Interestingly to me was him explaining how he picked the lawyers to use. He asked who the best lawyers are, and "they" said it's the tobacco lawyers, so he went with the tobacco lawyers, because "they" say the tobacco lawyers are the best.

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Re:Trump Says He Is Suing Facebook, Google and Twitter for A... by tatrajim on Wednesday July 07, 2021 @02:21PM (#27764204)

He means John Coale, anti-tobacco, anti-Union Carbide lawyer,

https://bijog.com/biography/john-p-coale

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Re:Trump Says He Is Suing Facebook, Google and Twitter for A... by okareaman on Wednesday July 07, 2021 @02:04PM (#27764029)

If it weren't for tobacco lawyers we'd have warning labels on cigarette packs, no cigarette vending machines, age limits on smoking, we couldn't smoke in bars and there would be a massive publicly funded campaign against smoking. Yes, tobacco lawyers are the best.

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Re:Trump Says He Is Suing Facebook, Google and Twitter for A... by neom on Wednesday July 07, 2021 @02:08PM (#27764069)

I presumed he was talking about these lawyers: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2598535/

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Re:Trump Says He Is Suing Facebook, Google and Twitter for A... by tatrajim on Wednesday July 07, 2021 @02:23PM (#27764227)

No, you've got the matter backwards. It's John Coale, anti-tobacco litigator.

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Re:Trump Says He Is Suing Facebook, Google and Twitter for A... by neom on Wednesday July 07, 2021 @02:25PM (#27764246)

My mistake, thank you kindly for clarifying. Seems like no matter what side of the tobacco coin you land on, the lawyers in tobacco are quite good.

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