Federal judge dismisses Trump's lawsuit against Twitter
, Twitter cited two of his tweets in particular that it believes were"highly likely to encourage and inspire people to replicate the criminal acts that took place at the US Capitol" on January 6th last year.
Trump filed a lawsuit in October, seeking a preliminary injunction on the ban and arguing that it violates his First Amendment rights. Donato disagreed and noted in histhat Twitter is a private company."The First Amendment applies only to governmental abridgements of speech," he explained,"and not to alleged abridgements by private companies.
In his lawsuit, Trump asked the judge to rule the federal Communications Decency Act, which states that online service providers such as Twitter can't be held liable for content posted by users, as unconstitutional. The judge shot down that claim, as well, and ruled that the former President didn't have legal standing to challenge