This is the Cator Daily Podcast for Wednesday, April 17th, 2019.

I'm Caleb Brown.

California Congressman Devon Nunez doesn't like being criticized or mocked on Twitter.

Who does? Especially by parody Twitter handles

pretending to be your mother or a cow. So Devon Nunez filed suit against

Twitter seeking hundreds of millions of dollars all for hosting those hurtful

tweets he's also sued Liz Mayer a Republican strategist in Washington DC we spoke

last week some people are not being very nice to Devon Nunez on Twitter.

Devon Nunez doesn't like this.

And so he has sued Twitter for allowing this to go on, calling it defamation, which of course is a

tort that can be claimed by people, but on Twitter nobody's nice to anyone and if you choose to be a public

official it seems logical that people would not be nice to you because you're in the business of taking

their stuff and giving it to other people.

Yeah, well I think in general, yeah, the internet is not a super friendly place.

And I think that that's true, whether you are a very visible public figure or not,

whether you're a government official or not.

Certainly, I think if we all look at replies that we have to various

tweets that we put out just as average citizens, we're going to see that trend

play out. But yes, I think that it's very important to understand here that with regard to these two lawsuits in which I am now a defendant,

we have a sitting member of the United States government who is using litigation as a cudgel to try to stifle free speech.

And that is literally what James Madison was concerned about when he wrote the First Amendment

to prevent people from doing that.

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