Which explains nothing. I really am looking for an explanation. I feel like i am missing something. This should get laughed out of court immediately.
Not at all.
It was completely illegal for Twitter to discriminate against different political opinions by banning Trump when he had done nothing wrong or illegal.
A lot of lawyers will incorrectly claim that only race, religion, sex, nation of origin, age, pregnancy, citizenship, family status, disabilities, and genetic information are protected under the 1965 civil right act or a later law.
Those are the specifically listed protected classes, but lawyers then often incorrectly assume that all other discrimination is then legal.
Not at all!
The reality is that ALL discrimination is always illegal, and these protected classes are explicitly listed because they have a long history of being abused anyway.
But all you have to do is just think about it for a few seconds, and remember that the 14th amendment has an Equal Protection clause.
That means you can't have race being protected against discrimination, and not have political speech also protected.
Otherwise you would be violating the equal protection clause.
The only way banning Trump would be legal is if it could be proven he was violating rights with deliberately malicious lies, or was attempting to incite violence. I have seen Trump's tweets, like urging Pence to not validate the election results, and there was nothing illegal.
So then Twitter can not ban.
In fact, they can not even alter a single word of the tweets.
They were all perfectly legal.