{"id":114906,"date":"2021-02-01T12:31:19","date_gmt":"2021-02-01T17:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=114906"},"modified":"2021-02-01T12:42:32","modified_gmt":"2021-02-01T17:42:32","slug":"breaking-steven-crowder-announces-lawsuit-against-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-steven-crowder-announces-lawsuit-against-facebook\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Steven Crowder Announces Lawsuit Against Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbreaking-steven-crowder-announces-lawsuit-against-facebook%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=114906&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Conservative host Steven Crowder announced Monday that he&#8217;s suing tech giant Facebook on the grounds of &#8220;unfair competition, fraud, false advertising, and antitrust.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Crowder attorney Bill Richmond said the suit has already been\u00a0initiated and more information will be provided to the public as the suit progresses.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re going after Facebook based on its own words and its own promises,&#8221; Richmond explained. Facebook, he said, claimed they were no longer suppressing certain speech, however, continued to do so.<\/p>\n<p>As an example of what he said was speech suppression, Crowder pointed to his election livestream that was apparently cut off. The stream, as noted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/steven-crowders-election-coverage-drew-millions-of-views-competed-with-major-networks\">The Daily Wire<\/a>,\u00a0amassed a stunning 8.1 million views. The host said he was never given a reason as to why the coverage was curtailed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They removed the biggest stream that has ever existed, from the biggest platform that&#8217;s ever existed, with no reason,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Richmond said the goal of the suit is to get injunctive relief from Facebook. &#8220;Getting them to just, in a word, stop it,&#8221; he said, adding, &#8220;stop throttling, stop secretly throttling, stop expressly throttling, stop doing all the different things that are anti-competitive behavior.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">Crowder teased the lawsuit on Sunday afternoon.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">&#8220;I do not know what will happen February 2nd. But tomorrow, we will NOT self censor, we will NOT be bullied, silenced or intimidated. We will kneel for NO one,&#8221; the conservative tweeted. &#8220;We will announce our lawsuit, charge forward and let the cards fall where they may. You have my word. 10AM ET.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I do not know what will happen February 2nd. But tomorrow, we will NOT self censor, we will NOT be bullied, silenced or intimidated. We will kneel for NO one. We will announce our lawsuit, charge forward and let the cards fall where they may. You have my word. 10AM ET. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/LwC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#LwC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Steven Crowder (@scrowder) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/scrowder\/status\/1355915860272144391?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 31, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Writing at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/how-big-techs-bullying-of-parler-and-non-compliance-with-section-230-could-lead-to-its-demise\">The Daily Wire<\/a>, attorney Jeffrey Lax, a professor and department chair at the City University of New York, explained the intentions of the protections offered tech giants like Facebook and Google via Section 230 (emphasis added):<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>Federal courts have\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/caselaw.findlaw.com\/us-9th-circuit\/1158381.html\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/caselaw.findlaw.com\/us-9th-circuit\/1158381.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1611170628796000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEcQnr0734Fkw3p-ApbTbR41vPeXw\">explained<\/a>\u00a0that Congress\u2019 enactment of Section 230 in 1996 was an effort \u201cto\u00a0encourage\u00a0the unfettered and unregulated development of free speech on the Internet, and to promote the development of e-commerce.\u201d <strong>Section 230, therefore, was meant to promote, widen and expand the promulgation of speech on the internet, not to restrict, curtail and suppress it.<\/strong> In fact, Section 230 specifically identifies diversity of political discourse as desirable,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.cornell.edu\/uscode\/text\/47\/230\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.law.cornell.edu\/uscode\/text\/47\/230&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1611170628796000&amp;usg=AFQjCNF78QiD7ozeqHgs-0I9uzr8ntTe7g\">expressly advocating<\/a>\u00a0for \u201cinteractive computer services [to] offer a forum for a true diversity of political discourse.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In November, The Daily Wire&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/how-big-techs-bullying-of-parler-and-non-compliance-with-section-230-could-lead-to-its-demise\">Candace Owens<\/a> announced her lawsuit against Facebook&#8217;s self-styled &#8220;fact-checkers,&#8221; including USA Today and Lead Stories.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is time to fact-check the fact-checkers,\u201d Owens\u00a0announced in a video post. \u201cI\u2019m going to put these suckers through discovery and figure out what the relationship\u00a0is that they have with Facebook.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese people are sitting back thinking they\u2019re the gods of tech; opinion-checkers, they\u2019re censorship lords,\u201d Owens told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/candace-owens-challenges-fact-checker-and-wins\">The Daily Wire<\/a> in November, in relation to the suit.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to make it so there\u2019s no incentive for PolitFact, USA Today, Lead Stories to sign-on to be a fact-checker,\u201d she explained. \u201cI want to show that they can get sued and lose money. So, what is the point of them taking on that liability on behalf of Facebook?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the same time, Facebook is distancing themselves from fact-checkers,\u201d\u00a0Owens continued. \u201cWe went after Facebook and sent them a letter, and they said, we have nothing to do with the fact checkers. \u2026 So, if Facebook isn\u2019t coming to their aid, and they\u2019re being sued by individuals, there will be no upside. And that\u2019s sort of the corner we\u2019re trying to pinch them into.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The conservative author said she wants the censorship stopped for the millions of Americans sharing opinions or information against the one accepted narrative from the Left. If she wins her legal case, she said, she could set the precedent for a massive class action lawsuit against Facebook from others who\u2019ve allegedly been censored.<\/p>\n<p>WATCH:<\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"WAR!! WALL STREET vs. MAIN STREET! | Louder with Crowder\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TGYXtXVlekA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/candace-owens-suing-facebook-fact-checkers-for-defamation-not-going-to-give-up-and-sit-down\">Candace Owens Suing Facebook Fact-Checkers For Defamation: \u2018Not Going To Give Up And Sit\u00a0Down\u2019<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conservative host Steven Crowder announced Monday that he\u2019s suing tech giant Facebook on the grounds of \u201cunfair competition, fraud, false advertising, and antitrust.\u201d Crowder attorney Bill Richmond said the suit &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1892378,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3704,4156,3997,4582,4585,4579],"class_list":["post-114906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-against","tag-announces","tag-breaking","tag-crowder","tag-lawsuit","tag-steven"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1892378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}