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I've mentioned this before but it bears repeating for why they are doing this to you, Alex, and everyone else that gets in their way:

Why is it so vital and necessary for the combined monolithic apparatus of government, corporations, and NGOs, to brute force censor everyone while decimating the careers and reputations of the dissenters? Here is why:

The reason the First Amendment is prime directive order 1, is because it is the most important freedom we have for the same reason it is the first target an adversary subverts, disrupts, and destroys during a crime, a war, or a takeover—preventing a target from assembling, communicating, and organizing a response to an assult grants an enormous advantage to the aggressors.

This is and has been occurring all across the globe since the minute this COVID-19 fraud was propagated to every corner of the earth.

The Second Amendment is second because it is the remedy for anyone trying to subvert the First.

The fog of this war is purposefully thick—a massive labyrinth filled with wrong turns, dead ends, and long, interesting paths to nowhere—relentless discombobulation are important tentpoles of demoralization and destabilization.

tritorch.com/flim-flam-demic

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Awesome comment, very well stated, wish I had thought of that. Love your site as well, mate. Thanks for all of your hard work

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Thank you Scott!

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Great comment and great link. I've passed it on where I could.

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Thank you decaf, and thank you for sharing our work—that helps this cause far more than most realize.

We are not going to give up without a fight.

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Glad to hear it. I just wish I knew people where I am who aren't almost all totally oblivious or downright hostile to hearing anything other than the pap we're being fed.

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Beautifully written! If the 2nd amendment had been destroyed by the lefties we would have concentration, sorry quarantine camps here. The end game for them is to remove God. Sorry it ain't happenin! Long live the resistance!

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I definitely concur. For all the Democratic “Christians” out there, I tell them that Socialism and Christianity are not compatible. The end game of liberals is to remove God, which absolves them of guilt for their perverse lives. I pray for them, for they will be truth-slapped one day, and it will be too late.

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In the same vein there are visionaries that I trust from around the world one of whom Jesus recently told he wanted faithful people to pray the Divine Mercy Chaplet, preferably at the 3:00 hour, from now until Divine Mercy Sunday (first Sunday after this upcoming Easter) with the specific intention of praying for those who are not prepared to meet him. We are hurtling through the door of God’s justice, His severe mercy, where everyone who is alive will be “truth-slapped.”

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Absolutely. I pray for the lost, for hashtag 46 and his family, administration, the government, the citizens, the USA. There’s so much fear, and that’s not of God. I’ve no fear, and am grateful for Gods mercy and favor. 🙏 absolutely!!

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I am equally against government/corporate/media collusion taking away our rights, but one needn't bring superstition into it. It just makes you look illogical.

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👍🙏 I love that expression “truth-slapped”!! 😊

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Thank you! It’s a Karen original 😂 I also invented “karma-slapped” for when that karma bus mows you down….

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It's nice expression, but "slapped" seems too mild to express the crushing devastation and regret that will occur at that moment, and continue forever.

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Yeah. In all seriousness, I agree.

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Combined forces of government, corporations, and of course media ... the definition of fascism.

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TRUE, NAZISM.

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Here here. 🙌🏻🙌🏻👏🏻👏🏻

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And the 10th. Starting a war is a distraction from bad poll numbers, food shortages not seen since Hoover, and our Military are not capable of fighting a war anymore after 3 jabs, Obama decimated the senior officers when he was in, GWB let to many get killed, maimed press didn't need in on every raid/battle. FJB has damaged to many, and when Trump inheireted the Military, he was rebuilding it, it had a 10% Frontline ready troops. Raw recruits are 'Cannon Fodder' that has been fact for a long time. Millions to recruit unless he drafts, and that will include girls, 2 yrs to do a good training program, can't equal a 10+ yr experienced Soldier or Sailor, Pilots take longer, unless he's planning on drones. NO surlpus US Supplies either. everthing is now made overseas. No more large steelmills and manufactures. Chips are China made. My dad was WW2 Airborne under MacAuthur, 5 major battles, Corregidor was his last major 1, he then went on to the Nuked Japan. Oldest BIL was WW2 served aboard the 2nd USS Lexinghton. His brother was Korea, and Hubby was Vietnam Avionics, Flight deck, 20 yr Career, retired as a SCPO. I may only be a Spouse, but those are facts you learn quickly and don't forget. I have to keep up with the medical end as Hubby @ 81 has no interest in it. I'm the 1 who ordered the 20ft flag pole and got my boys to set it, makes sure he knows what days to Run the Flag up unless it's raining. He has 2 nephews 1 Army, 1 Border Patrol, my grandson is 19, Cannon Fodder age. So are a few of his college age grands, and 1 great granddaughter who will be a 18 yr old draft bait. A WOKE idiot, and a demenia fool in charge. WAKE ME WHEN THE REBELLION WAR 2 STARTS and we retake our own COUNTRY!

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OMG! I am overwhelmed with your history. Thank you so very, very much for your service. THANK YOU, THANK YOU!

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You go girl!! 👍💪🏼🇺🇸

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Don't worry, we know it's safe to use those complex electronic and computer components made in China in our advanced weapons. It's not like they are going to build in any kind of back door or spying capabilities that we can't detect.

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My God, I wish you weren’t so spot-on, but you are. Heads up everyone.

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Yes, we already caught them once. They were so embarrassed that they'll never try that again.

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WE are not starting a war ... UKRAINE is NOT starting a war ... this is all about the maniacal midget 9putin) wanting to recreate the USSR

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Biden is the one trying to start a war. He's got to distract us from his covid bs, inflation, his money making ties and alliance to China (who will invade Taiwan right after Olympics), and his ongoing participation in "great reset" destruction of US.

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I know……scares me to death as he sits there gumming his food and licking his ice cream cone.

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Why didn’t Obama step in with Crimea if Biden should now? Or maybe it’s the cash Ukraine gave Biden and his bag men? (10% for the big guy!)

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What about Crimea? It was and is Russian territory since Ekaterina the grate period, as well as Ukraine! US+ UK took off a legitimate President, installed their puppet- Poroshenko and announced Ukraine as an independent country- haha, but dependent on Americans tax payers money! Now what- NATO members- really? Right on Russian border! What do you expect from Putin to do- open border or defended border?!

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wow... a putin propagandist on Berenson's site ... welcome KATSAP ... it was Greek and Turkish before Catherine ...

The USSR had Crimea from 1922 until 1954 when it was given to UKRAINE.. it has been art of Ukraine ever sense and for 30+ years after the dissolution f the failed soviet state.

Your coup LIE has been exposed numerous times but you are a katsap and do not know the truth from a lie.

NATO members on russia's border? You mean in Moldova where russia invaded to put itself WEST of Ukraine. Was the maniacal midget invited into Ukraine like countries asked to join NATO or did he invade. https://www.businessinsider.com/map-of-the-russia-nato-confrontation-2015-2

GFY

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By the way… quick reminder that we are on the same side and you’re furious with your own countryman. You think we can handle an unpopular war and survive as a country?

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You’re not capable of civil discourse but regardless, Americans by and large don’t support this war. It weakens us further. Period.

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because Obama did not live up to OUR obligations under the Budapest Memorandum ....

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Or because we need to stop interfering in the rest of the world’s business. Even Obama understood that. Fix our border before you worry about others.

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🙌

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BTW what do you think the russian invasion is about, you don't really believe the russian propaganda that it is a civil war or its about NATO.

If you do you need to become more knowledgeable, like you have about COVID since you follow Alex,

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So we do not stand up for our obligations and promises? The Ukrainians do NOT want our soldiers, only weapons. putin is attempting to rebuild the USSR, this has nothing to do with NATO. (BTW YOU need to travel the world more, we are not in this alone.)

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The definition of complete ignorance!

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And indiference

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spoken like a katsap ... I am in Ukraine often the last 8 years , you are fcking clueless

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"We must implement mandates now so that we won't have to do mandates in the future"

-Joe Biden - 2022

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Tear their ass up, Alex.

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make them poor Alex, to their last penny! Lessons must be learned and spreaded worldwide!!!

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Every. Single. Word.

I dislike "me too" comments but there's simply nothing to add to that.

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As someone who used to teach Constitutional Law to law enforcement, I agree with you about the primary importance of the First Amendment but I'm not entirely with you about the effectiveness of the solution you might imply for the 2nd Amendment. The stoic non-violent, non-partisan peaceful stand-off of these Canadian truckers facing down the guns of police snipers are demonstrating the power and effectiveness of Gandhian and MLK Jr.'s teaching of non-violence.

What a great and effective example: https://youtu.be/m6R7AaLBOYo

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Yes, in an ideal world those courageous truckers would succeed and inspire the rest of the planet. But, sadly we don’t. I believe in the second Amendment as deterrent, and that it is the only thing that has prevented the US from becoming Australia or Austria. I have a deep and abiding love for the Freedom Convoy. But it appears that they are heading for a showdown with that Creepy, Godless, Narcissisti, Tyrant Trudeau (I call him the CPL “Creepy Parliament Leader”). Tyrants like him rarely back down. So the question becomes when he gives the order to the police/ military to shoot do those officers value their jobs and pensions so just follow orders, or do they realize the heinous crime it would be to pull the trigger?

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The military has already said they're not going to be a part of this and there's no threat to justify lethal use of force - in fact most protests are more like block parties.

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I don't disagree, but I would argue they are certainly good for keeping a check on power, and are of course necessary for when all other attempts at resolution fail.

That video is a wonderful sight, thank you for sharing that, Coleen

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I recently read MLK's Letter from a Birmingham Jail. Echoes of the past. But inspiring.

https://letterfromjail.com/

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Great video.

btw, did your old employer, the FBI, conspire to murder MLK, Jr?

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The courts are the answer. This is a must win. #sockeminthewallet

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Work together guys! There is power in unity.

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If twitter claims they are a "non-profit", let's try and help them along with that mission.

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Wry and FUNNY, love it.

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In all honesty, if all free speech advocate would vote with their feet, their stock would be $2.38 not $238. It pisses me off to see heavy hitters like Posobiec still there.

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I left Twitter the day they banned President Trump

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I was never a big user but I am banned anyway.

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Me too, and I'm proud of it!

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We left, ceremoniously, on July 4th after they kicked Trump off.

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Me too! And, I still don’t know what I did. Lol

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Must be why the shareholders are heading for the exits!

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Facebook as well; they lost $200 billion in market cap. Here's an opportunity for MySpace to reclaim the title!

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Clueless here…..MySpace…..what is this? I joined Facebook one minute and the next minute I canceled it and that wasn’t easy.

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"MySpace" was the second social media platform to launch, several years before FB (the first was SixDegrees, but no one remembers them). MySpace was sold to Newscorp for $580 million; two years later, FB launched - the rest is history. Newscorp sold MySpace for $35 million and now it is a music and video review site.

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Thank you!

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The whole market is heading down....big time....don't read too much into individual stock prices. The "Tell" will be when the market again rallies for months and these "Censorship" stocks stay behind in the wake. That's when we'll know they are dead.

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Twitter peaked months ago. It’s 50% off its high.

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It could be hysterical if Trump’s SPAC funds were used in a Twitter takeover.

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Very true; I predict the slide will continue.

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Some member of Congress (Patrick Fullon) dropped over $100k -$150,000 on Twitter stock recently. Maybe some other company is planning a takeover.

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Yes. It won’t matter to them at all if their participants are reduced to zero.

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It will matter to the shareholders; that's all that counts.

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Can't leave that, of which, you were never a part.

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You didn’t end with a preposition…….I’m impressed.

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Alex, with all due respect, as a lawyer myself I have to ask you, what does your counsel say about your public comments on the litigation (PS - Don't answer!). God Bless You.

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For all we know his lawyers are vetting them.

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I think anything goes when it comes to opinions on publicly available information. As a long-time high-profile investigative journalist he probably already knows what he should and shouldn’t be saying. But yeah, it’d be nice to know what the lawyers would advise.

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You’re forgetting one eternal truth: Alex gonna Alex.

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All Alexes? Or just OP Alex? ;)

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Takes one to know one!

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There are two types of people in this world: those that think Alex has a valid point, those who think he is mistaken, and those who understand he’s just trying to be provocative by making a statement that begs for correction.

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No you’re both obviously of the second type. As I clearly stated, there are only two types.

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It's not playing games. It's more (1) do a lot at the last minute when adrenaline motivation is in play or (2) if the motion has been already written then hold off on filing until the last minute in case someone notices another angle to include or (3) someone else highly qualified gets some free time to contribute to the effort. You don't want to wish you included something but you can't because you already filed the thing.

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Good Question !

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Maybe he makes a scene just in case it gets thrown out?

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The comments I see here from lawyers are, I am sure, all true. It is precisely why "regular" people HATE the court and civil law system in this country. Cases drag out for years, cost a shit ton of money, and justice is rarely served. Lawyers make money and corporations get away with "murder," including real murder. I won't even mention the criminal law system. LOL.

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Quite dreadful how on point your observation is. And itwas designed this way for those very reasons.

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Why I stopped practicing years ago.

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Tort reform, lease.

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And lawyers in black robes rule.

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It’s all about billable hours...

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I like this part

"Twitter suspended Plaintiff’s account in August 2021 based on Plaintiff’s repeated

violations of Twitter’s COVID-19 misleading information policy. This policy is designed to permit

robust discussion of the pandemic while also preventing Twitter’s platform from being used to

promulgate falsehoods that might prevent the public from making informed decisions regarding

their health and put people and communities at risk."

By baring Alex in the MIDDLE of those "Robust Discussions" Twitter is guilty of "preventing the public from making informed decisions regarding their health and put people and communities at risk."

The discussion wasn't over, as is evident by the existence of this stack, which millions of twitter followers were warned against viewing as it contained the information Twitter deemed to "promulgate falsehoods".

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If they just make a minor change and direct these allegations to Twitter instead of Alex then both sides could agree.

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A win win! :-)

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Honestly I'm a bit tired of the "my epic battle against those who shunned me at the lunch table" story, but if the end result is this incestuous cabal of big tech evil is brought to heel, or better yet, destroyed for the betterment of society, then I say Godspeed to Alex and his legal team.

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Even if Twatter begged with sacks of cash I would tell them where to stick their subversive mind-warping, totalitarian overbearing dictatorship.

I am on GETTR along with the rest of the free speakers.

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Where are all the major companies supporting the cause of the peaceful Canadian truckers.

Hey Coca cola and Air B n B, WHERE ARE YOUR DONATIONS?

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Because the owners of the Covid Control Matrix rolling out also own, through ponzi monopoly finance abuse, large chunks of all these corporations. The roll out is the final consolidation of the digital gulag.

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Maybe oil/petroleum companies too?

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Exactly.

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GO ALEX

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Twitter Soup Kitchen: cookin up BS for the masses

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@Alex - IMHO the key to winning against these guys is Fraud. Fraud nullifies all contracts present and past. It does not matter what you agreed to in the terms and conditions. It does not matter their claims of immunity. Their claims of covid disinformation standards is Fraudulent. There will be a paper trail to demonstrate this. Willful or not is about the amount of damages. Any lawyer of substance knows this.

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imo it's a RICO case. All these tech companies are conspiring directly with each other, the MSM, and democrats in organized crime.

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You could pull a Stossel on this by demanding a written copy of their Covid 19 misinformation standards. As far as I know, no one has yet defined how misinformation is determined. THAT would be worth the effort.

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I mean, this platform successfully banned the President of the United States from its platform, and then they have successfully allowed a sitting President who spread wrong information about what these vaccines would accomplish, to remain on the platform. So it’s very clear that they blatantly allow one group of users to spread actual wrong information and another group is not allowed to be on their platform to share accurate information. So basically they have been and will continue to do whatever the hell they want and nobody does anything to stop them.

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The real issue at stake here is who gets to decide what information is “misinformation” and why does only that group get to decide that? Would love to see Twitter’s attorneys explain how Trump spread misinformation about circumstances, but Biden telling people that vaccines will end Covid and prevent them from getting infected/sick/hospitalized/dead is totally permissible.

So their defense is misinformation is totally OK as long as it’s what the general public wants to hear and feels better about hearing?

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Yeah that is a really good point and one that has bothered me since "social media" began.

The individual's "Freedom of Speech" is a double edged sword. It brings with it the individual's "responsibility of understanding".

The Constitution doesn't guarantee what people say is true or accurate, and it doesn't say the government will provide someone to make those determinations for us.

It's up to the individual to decide what is true or what is bullshit.

Even with regulatory agencies created to do that thinking for us, it's still up to each one of us to accept or question those agencies. And let me tell you, I have more and more questions every day.

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I was taught that “your freedom of expression ends at the tip of my nose”. I tie that in with “sticks and stones...” and “Trust, but verify.”

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What most bothers me is that Twitter didn't used to ban the types of information they do now and that was how they got so many users. They had an advantage over all other platforms having been first.

They then proceeded to change the terms and treat their users unfairly. Countless people would never have started using Twitter at all if they had been as discriminatory at the first as they are now.

So it would be one thing if from the start they said, "we are a social media company that caters to leftists who follow a specific narrative." But they pretended otherwise and then used their dominance to hurt everyone else at a very crucial time.

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Yep, they are comedians over at Twitter, that's for darn sure. Too bad their shareholders won't be as amused as I was to learn this startling bit of news. Thanks for the Motion to Dismiss, Alex. I will read it with as much interest as I read the (70 page) complaint. Uh huh, I am a nerd with too much time on my hands.

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Can’t tell you how many times I’ve filed a brief at the last minute. Last minute filings are not indicative of lack of merit in any way. In fact, I’d argue that some of the worst briefs I’ve read were filed early.

That said, still rooting for you!

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Had a paralegal once who, in days before efiling, left office at 4:00 for courthouse 45 minutes away that closed at 4:30, it was last day to file, and he made it at 4:29. I thought senior partner was going to kill him. Yeah, Alex is overdoing it here - reading too much into things. Litigation is a long haul and he should just cool it. Focus on the important stuff.

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I worked in a law office for a brief time (no pun intended. ) They were always filing at the last minute. Worse, they routinely misplaced documents. I saved the day one time by locating the documents they needed to file by that afternoon's deadline. But I think that was only because I'd been the last one to work on them. That made me feel important, but really, it was embarrassing how disorganized the office was.

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Law offices are typically totally disorganized

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Alex, I have a hard time parsing out if your messages about the Twitter lawsuit are optimistic or naive. Either way, messages like this always ring hollow to me. You see Twitter doing something ridiculous or foolish. I see Twitter doing something because they know the court will side with them. They could file nothing but an image of a turd with "section 230" printed on it and they would still win.

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While I agree with you, many issues went to court (segregation, gay marriages, abortion--both ways, etc.) and got thrown out many times before that last time. Times change, and sometimes something sticks and improves the world (or at least from one person's point of view).

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If Twitter is a non profit can it be on the stock exchange?

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Short it to zero and leave the platform, no audience no messages to not profit from

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Exactly. Starve the Beast. Then they will be not for profit.

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As I’m sure Alex is aware they will keep this tied up in litigation for several years in order to financially drain the ‘little fish.’ I’m a recovering lawyer and this was the predominant strategy in my former civil litigation practice. Unfortunately it works extremely well in most cases of this nature.

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I joined you because I like reading your opinions whether I agree with them or not. I know that at some point you said you are not so good at reading and responding to posts yet I hope you read this. Response to me would be nice but not necessary. Movement on what I’m going to say is far more important. The government is allowed to lie and misrepresent regardless of the truth because the law forbidding our government from lying or propagandizing to its own citizens was changed by Obama. It is legal for them to lie with no legal acccoutability unless that law is changed. That law needs to be publicized and changed. Most Americans are probably not aware of this and many good hearted Americans that couldn’t believe our government would twist things needs this news to understand the many distorted messages. Please check this out and maybe help.

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Could you provide a link to more information?

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The government has always lied

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How and when did Obama change the laws about lying -or not lying - the public?

I don't know one way or the other if this is true. Obama himself? His administration? How did this transpire? You need to be more specific.

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Not implying anything here (🙄), but i will never forget Obama quoting the Quran with excellent enunciation and said book allows for lying. Does a caliphate allow it too?

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That is hilarious. Kind of like a shopping mall saying it doesn’t make a profit because it doesn’t participate in the in store retail sales. I used to be embarrassed that I went to a second tier law school. Not anymore 🤣

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Excellent analogy

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😉

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Interesting stuff..

As for timing, you’re dealing with lawyers. Lawyers are absolutely last minute absolutely all the time….

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Good luck! Keep the pressure on.

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Every Complaint and Answer filed in a lawsuit is a “throw it against the wall and hope it stick”. That’s how it works. Just have to toe the line of ridiculous and frivolous.

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Well, as a recovering lawyer and former litigator, I totally understand getting a motion to the courthouse just ahead of a deadline. I practiced in California for nearly two decades (and had cases against Cooley, then called Cooley Godward), so seeing 28-line pleading paper again is a bit traumatizing.

I read a bit of the motion. I think they've probably got you on their First Amendment argument. The recent Prager University case is not your friend.

But, I've been urging others (e.g., Prager, Devin Nunes, a few others) to advance a theory under the State of California's First Amendment and, specifically, Pruneyard, for nearly a decade now. I'm glad to see someone finally take that lead and run with it. It may not prevail, but it's a super-interesting theory. If your judge (or, really, his/her clerks) has any spine, that could get you past a motion to dismiss: Whether Twitter is analogous to the large public forum that was the Pruneyard Shopping Mall should be a question of fact. That's all you need to defeat a 12(b)(6) motion to dismiss. Well, a question of fact and a judge with a spine is all you need. Best of luck.

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Slightly off-topic, but I think that we all need to redouble our efforts to constantly push back against the forces of darkness (yes, that includes Twitter) in any legal manner. I sent the following message yesterday to one local tyrant. I try to send one of these types of message per day to a deserving tyrannical actor (corporate, governmental, etc.). I reasonably believe that these types of messages, if received in sufficient number, make a difference in changing behavior. Please do the same (to any deserving tyrant - or mindless sheep) if you are so inclined. Thanks to all.

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Dear Mayor Wu:

I grew up in Newton, MA. I have many fond memories of spending time throughout my childhood, teenage years and adulthood going into Boston for fun, culture and educational activities. My family often spent its hard earned money in Boston.

No longer will we do so. Please be advised that my family and I will no longer frequent any business located in Boston, nor will we travel to the City for any reason (unless absolutely necessary). We will only go to and spend money at/in jurisdictions that honor individual freedom. We will not support in any way the current system in place in Boston that discriminates based on medical choice. This is especially true since these so-called "vaccines" are not effective and are demonstrably unsafe. To force people to inject themselves with these experimental substances is fundamentally anti-American and flies in the face of medical evidence and bio-ethical principles.

The government of Boston (and MA more widely) has embarrassed this once great City (and State). Also, it is directly hurting businesses and organizations based in Boston, as we know that many others share our views. You must immediately revoke and rescind these discriminatory policies. Until that happens, we will not support in any way the City that we once loved.

History will judge you harshly unless you take immediate action to correct your clear errors.

Sincerely,

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Good job! Thousands of these might make the needle move. Nobody likes to be unpopular. The Dems are dropping mandates left and right as we get closer to the midterm.

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Alex I am praying for your success in this lawsuit. We need to end this tyranny against anyone that wants to oppose those that are trying to control the narrative and people. Where I live people are done with Covid mandates and those that continue to push their Illegal emergency powers. Not too many are wearing masks and not many businesses are enforcing these mandates. Hey Newsom are you capable of reading the room yet?

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Know this! Canada has absolutely ZERO jurisdiction over how we manage our funds here at GiveSendGo. All funds for EVERY campaign on GiveSendGo flow directly to the recipients of those campaigns, not least of which is The Freedom Convoy campaign.

https://twitter.com/GiveSendGo/status/1491940399505682434

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Is a publicly traded company on the stock market, non-profit? Asking for a friend...

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Doesn’t charge users to post or send content? The price is your registered information. Your agreement to be endlessly tracked, followed and advertised to, which turns into payment for Twitter. Followers are information currency as well. It’s why I just hover around and find new nitter links to see content I want to see and even the comments show.

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Sorry. The idea that they do not intend to make a profit trafficking content is not valid. Twitter does charge users to post, send and consume content in the form of time and behavioral data, which Twitter retains to resell.

And resell it does, to the tune of almost $4B annually. 86% of its revenue is advertising -- reselling the time it charged users to use its platform, while the remainder is from data licensing, which is the sale of data about their user's behavior, usage, and demographics. This revenue is another form of profiting from the trafficking of content.

As to being "non-profit", well that is technically true. They lost about $1B generating revenue, but I can assure you remaining unprofitable is not their intent!

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Alex, they say “they don’t charge you” to send & receive messages. But they still make their money from us by selling our attention span to others for profit. In other words- we ARE the product that they are selling. For profit.

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Twitter is about as dumb as the Canadian government. Reinstate you and end all mandates. Problems solved.

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The URL to the case is not clickable. Consider making it a hyperlink.

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Done. Sorry.

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No apology necessary.

I want to help you put your best foot forward because you champion a cause I believe in. 😎

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In an entirely unrelated note, you may be interested in this story:

https://noagendasocial.com/@NBS/107785962308801024

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Get a decent browser. Select text. Right click. Been able to do that for years on Chrome based browsers...

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Path of least resistance. Reduce toil. Don’t make me think.

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I have had enough with this BS, so I finally am a paid subscriber. I write in solidarity as one of the little people who has always considered herself to be a left of center Democrat (since I was old enough to vote). And, yes I've noticed incremental changes, the major hypocrisies taking place, like within the Clinton and Obama power structures, but now these narcissistic displays from the global elites, with legacy media prostituting themselves to the powers that be is just too much to take! And... since the Brain-dead, Biden Authoritarian takeover, nothing, absolutely nothing that is going on right now within the so called Democratic Party is even remotely recognizable. I love what you are doing, Alex, this David and Goliath story playing itself out. Remember, David wins in the end. ;) Thank you for your intellectual honesty, integrity and Courage! Go Brandon!! and Give them HELL, Alex!

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Twitter is a publicly traded company - how can it be a non-profit? Absurd! Liars, liars pants on fire!

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Off topic but not really as the general topic is authoritarian officials, NY is mandating as a human right that businesses post a salary range. So taking away civil liberties and body sovereignty aren’t human right issues but this is. LA is sure to follow next week. https://www.natlawreview.com/article/client-alert-amendment-to-new-york-city-human-rights-law?utm_source=Robly.com&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2022-02-08NLRNewYorkLegalNews&utm_content=0607e9b2b048a2ee5c962e403c31020a

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Their argument seems to be something like "We may well be a for-profit company, but that's not the same thing as carrying the messages for profit. We carry the messages for free - the only thing we do is post them and sell user data for-profit. The profit comes from our advertisers and data purchasers for the data harvesting and the eyballs."

Pretty subtle - ridiculous, but something that no doubt must be responded to. Just arguing they don't make a profit from their business isn't going to work unless the judge does the work for you.

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It's almost as if it's a bad idea for media companies and persons working in media to take it upon themselves to forbid people from using what words they want.

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Because lawyers have mucked up the legal system with dirty tactics, justice is hard to obtain. We no longer have justice system, a good friend who is a lawyer tells me, but a legal process system with many delays, diversions and stalls so that if justice ever prevails it takes years! Usually big money wins by making the other side spend all their resources on lawyers! Alex, hope you stay in the fight because it is going to be a long slog!

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Half of Silicon Valley??!! I laughed so hard I almost peed my pants. Little did you know you were so important!! 🤣😂🤣😂. We think you’re great Alex. Stick it to them.

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by the number of comments just here: you’re not alone, Alex!!!

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I'm sure Twitter's shareholders would like to hear how they are suddenly a non-profit.

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The well-known Trump meme also applies - sorry to say, Alex - to Alex:

"They're not really after me; they're after you.

I'm just in the way."

https://www.dropbox.com/s/fmtuvk10173knv8/They%27re%20after%20you.jpg?dl=0

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I left twatter 2 years ago in the hopes of making them truly non-profit. If everyone else follows suit, (see what I did there) then maybe they will go the way of the dodo.

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Alex-I hope you get an award of $1 billion.

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Alex: You probably can't answer here of course. However, for consideration: Do you have a legal defense fund set up on GiveSendGo or another platform? Do you want one? Are your lawyers lining up amici and/or think tank support? None of my business, I know, but I hope for your sake your firm is offering at least some kind of alternative pricing arrangement, such as reduced rates, a contingency fee, a success bonus, or some combination. I would love to think that your complaint will survive the Motion to Dismiss and Twitter will then become willing to negotiate, but I just don't know. I realize they are a non-profit and all, but even so, they have way more money than you.... My continued best to you.

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Terms of service with section 230 “Utility”…

“The Terms provide that Twitter “may suspend or terminate your account or cease providing you with all or part of [its] Services at any time for any or no reason[.]” (¶ 133

FOR NO REASON!!!!

By putting this in their “term of service” contract they are EXPLICITLY admitting they are NOT a protected utility…

A 230 LEGISLATIVE Protected “utility” with the purpose of a “free public square” CAN NOT TERMINATE such a vital human NECESSITY for NO REASON????

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I shared this post on Twitter fyi.

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Alex... can I post to Facebook and suggest people donate to a legal fund or simply subscribe. I think a lot of people would support you.

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You are welcome to encourage people to subscribe! At this point I do not have a legal defense (or offense) fund.

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You've got to hear this, from a Las Vegas school, when told they didn't have to mask. Even I could hear them screaming in joy. https://headlineusa.com/teacher-catches-kids-reacting-to-news-of-mask-liberation/?utm_source=HUSAemail&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=HUSAemail

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You didn't come this far to get this far. David vs. Goliath 2022. Best of luck with this!

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