…and also causing financial harm.
I seldom regard lawsuits with the same awe that the Powdered Wig Brigade may do (except when it comes to gun rights), but I think I’ll make an exception here:
In what could become one of the most significant free speech and digital rights cases in American history, Wimkin Social Media and its founder, J.C. Sheppard, are initiating a massive class-action lawsuit. Their targets are a formidable alliance: Big Tech companies, their advertisers, the Biden administration, and legacy media giants. This landmark legal action isn’t just about one company’s survival; it’s a defiant stand against what they call the “systematic silencing, blacklisting, and demonetization” of conservatives in the United States.
Wimkin’s legal action seeks to recover staggering financial losses while serving as a rallying point for every conservative content creator, publisher, and platform that has been censored, banned, or financially crippled by the combined power of Silicon Valley, Washington D.C., and their media allies.
Wimkin’s legal action is a comprehensive effort to hold those responsible accountable for a coordinated campaign to suppress conservative viewpoints. The defendants include Apple, Google, Meta (Facebook), YouTube, X, TikTok, the Biden administration, and major advertisers and aligned media outlets. The lawsuit claims this coordinated effort, disguised as “safety” and “misinformation control,” has caused severe financial and reputational harm, directly violating constitutional protections. Due to the ongoing nature of these losses, Wimkin’s legal strategy invokes equitable tolling to preserve the statute of limitations, ensuring that damages as far back as 2019 can be claimed.
No, I’d never heard of Wimkin before, either. But anyone who takes on The Man — in this case, Leftists and their corporate lickspittles — has my support.
But wait! There’s moar!
Sheppard’s fight doesn’t end in the courtroom. He is also drafting a bill for Congress that would demand “real reparations” for conservatives who can prove financial losses from 2019 to the present because of politically motivated censorship or deplatforming. Sheppard draws a sharp contrast between this initiative and progressive calls for slavery reparations. “The left demands reparations for events that happened over 150 years ago, when no one alive today experienced them firsthand,” Sheppard states. “We’re talking about real, provable, measurable damages that have occurred in the last six years—damages that have destroyed livelihoods, stifled innovation, and robbed millions of Americans of their right to speak freely.” Sheppard believes the total recovery could exceed a staggering $500 billion.
Good luck, my son. Hit them where it really hurts: their fucking wallets. Stick it to The Man, bigly.
If this works then imagine the gun folks like Hickok45, 22plinkster etc who were demonetized on Youtube. Same with Prager University and more
The Doctor of Common Sense is not on YouTube any more.
He is on Rumble. Check out his channel.
doctorofcommonsense
Rumble
Did the private companies deplatform conservatives at the urging of the Federal government?
Let’s just say that they went into the same room at the same time and said the same things once they came out.
Big Tech has always claimed that CDA 230 shields “interactive computer services” from being treated as the publisher or speaker of information provided by others. BUT they cannot moderate what is published. Once they do that, they lose the CDA 230 protection.
It has always amazed me watching the “clowns nose on, clowns nose off” game Big Tech plays, where they claim immunity from lawsuit under CDA 230, “because we’re just a set of wires, like the telephone companies”, but at the same time editing/moderating content on their platforms to “prevent misinformation or hate speech”.
I’d like to see Big Tech lose the CDA 230 protection because they are acting as publishers regardless of their ISP neutrality pretense, and once that happens they can be held for libel, first amendment violations, etc. Losing their CDA 230 protection would also, pour encourager les autres, serve to stop other companies from acting in the same manner the way they do today.
This lawsuit sounds like it is a first step in that direction and I hope it succeeds.
“Hit them where it really hurts: their fucking wallets.”
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Normally I’d agree. But when it comes to gov’t and “too large to fail” enterprises, money is just pixels on glass.
I want to see stretched necks and exploding heads.
I’m OK with the lawsuit, but not the reparations.
Where does the money for reparations come from? Most likely, from taxpayers like me, who didn’t harm anyone. If it’s going to come from the businesses that did cause harm, then that’s what the lawsuit is for. Why would you need reparations too?
I think reparations, given its recent taint, was a poor choice of words, and instead should have been restitution and punitive damages.
The 1st amendment is dangerous. It could be used to offend someone. It could be used to make someone cry.
The liberals say there is a category of speech known as “hate speech”. You can’t call someone a fag, a retard, a Polack (i’m half polish so if anyone is offended FUCK YOU, its my peeps bitches!).
The utopia for liberals and commies would be that if you say, write, publish or post etc anything not approved by the communist party or anything that offends or makes anyone upset, you will be visited by the gestapo and possibly sent to a re-education camp or a hard labor camp.
Oh, and when you are visited, in addition to being schooled on the 1st amendment, if you are found to be in position of “assault devices” (Evil Guns) – that inventory will now become property of the commie party. No one needs guns, whatchu need a gun for.
All other rights will be violated in order after the roadblock of the pesky number 1 and 2 amendments have been desolved.
“Wimkin’s legal action is a comprehensive effort to hold those responsible accountable for a coordinated campaign to suppress conservative viewpoints. The defendants include Apple, Google, Meta (Facebook), YouTube, X, TikTok, the Biden administration, and major advertisers and aligned media outlets. ”
If any of these entities received even a penny of taxpayer funding – then two things
1 – NEVER give them a dime in taxpayer funding again, not even tax incentives
2 – IF the company took even a penny of taxpayer money directly or indirectly – Find out how many users they violated the free speech of and fine them 1 Million dollars per user. Can’t pay? No worries, the US govt will purchase your company for 1 dollar (99 cents plus one penny) and then sell it to the highest bidder much like a drug dealers siezed vehicle.
FUCK CENSORSHIP
I dunno, man. I see that as only a partial solution.
The real key to preventing this is to entirely dismantle the governmental-industrial complex, for which the much vaunted and feared “military industrial complex” was but a working prototype.
This sort of thing was only possible with the mutually reinforcing ingredients of formal government power, informal institutional trust/authority, and the get ‘er done prowess of commercial business being baked into a toxic soufflé.