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Federal court rejects Gabbard's bias suit against Google
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/03/04/court-gabbard-bias-suit-google-121226A federal judge has rejected a lawsuit in which Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard accused Google of temporarily suspending her presidential campaign ads due to political bias noting that the online search giant is not a government entity bound by the First Amendment.
District Judge Stephen Wilson said Gabbard failed to show that Google's decisions are "in any way equivalent to a government regulation of an election."
"Google does not hold primaries, it does not select candidates, and it does not prevent anyone from running for office or voting in elections," Wilson wrote in his decision dated Tuesday. "To the extent Google 'regulates' anything, it regulates its own private speech and platform."
Gabbard sued Google last summer after her campaign's advertising account was suspended for several hours following the first Democratic presidential debate. The bias allegations by the Hawaii Democrat, whose campaign picked up its first and only delegate on Super Tuesday, echoed those of Republicans in Washington who have lobbed similar accusations, as well as a conservative group that lost a similar suit against Google-owned YouTube last week.
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Federal court rejects Gabbard's bias suit against Google (Original Post)
fleur-de-lisa
Mar 2020
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no_hypocrisy
(46,160 posts)1. Sorry Tulsi. Now go pay your attorneys.
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
primary today, I would vote for: Undecided
Mad Lib
(86 posts)2. They've already been paid...
probably in rubles.
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
Gothmog
(145,489 posts)3. The First Amendment only apply to state actors
If I were to vote in a presidential
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden
primary today, I would vote for: Joe Biden