Not pictured: a sense of irony

Wai-wai-wait, just to be absolutely crystal clear on this point: Donald Trump is suing someone else because he feels that they're abusing legal immunity? 

Pictured: Everyone, just everyone.

If nothing else, our impending extinction
will at least put an end to shows like this.

Yeah, Donald Trump is suing Google, Facebook, and Twitter who, over the course of Trump's disastrous presidency, sometimes saw fit to take down some of his more egregious posts, for censorship. Which, I mean, I know people throw around the word "censorship" a lot. It get's shouted anytime a movie studio cuts a scene to avoid an NC-17 rating or when The Discovery Channel blurs out the hootenanny's and wing-wangs on Naked and Afraid, but does the former President and current insurrectionist not have a working definition of the word?

Where's that Old Testament
wrath when you really need it?

I ask because--and I'm not a lawyer or anything--but isn't censorship something done at a governmental level and not say, a Zuckerberg level? Like, Trump is a Republican, or at least someone who conned the Republican Party into worshipping him as some kind of petulant, flag-humping, man-baby-god, and don't Republicans love, like want to marry, the free market? And aren't they famous for vigorously and often recklessly defending the rights of corporations to do whatever the hell they want up to and including rendering the planet uninhabitable? 

Oh right, his unselfconscious
and unrelenting hypocrisy...

So what I don't get is how they reconcile that with the idea that private companies refusing to publish the insane word-pudding of a narcissist somehow constitutes censorship. I'm not like defending Twitter or Facebook here, but there's no law that compels them to provide him or anyone else with a platform for their Stop the Steel or drink rubbing alcohol to cure COVID nonsense. In fact, according to NPR, there is a law, The Communications Decency Act of 1996, that specifically says that internet companies can moderate their content. 

Someone told him these aren't real, right?

Trump's grievance then, one of, like thirty thousand at this point, is that he feels they've abused this immunity. Which is weird, because while in office and even before, he himself claimed to be immune from any and all laws forever because of that one time he technically and narrowly won an electoral college victory. So where even does he get off accusing anyone of taking advantage of immunity? Right, sorry, I keep forgetting that these people think the rules don't apply to them just because they so rarely do.

Anyway, the Communications Decency Act also says these platforms aren't liable for their contact, which is probably good for Trump as his own failed social media venture is evidently flooded with Sonic the Hedgehog porn.

Well, at least he has some followers now.