The Thomas More Society is defending a pro-life Florida woman who is suing Google for deplatforming her without explanation and keeping her data.
The attorney group is representing 76-year-old Trudy Perez-Poveda in her lawsuit against Google in a trial court in Jacksonville, Florida. Perez-Poveda argues that, without explanation, Google deplatformed her an hour after she emailed members of her pro-life group in September to join her for a peaceful Catholic Mass and prayer gathering in front of A Woman’s Choice, an abortion business in Jacksonville. Google then refused to allow her access to more than 11 years of her stored emails, photographs, calendars, contacts, and other data.
According to the legal group, this lawsuit appears to be the first of its kind in seeking to enforce portions of Florida’s anti-censorship law since it was challenged at the U.S. Supreme Court in Moody v. Net Choice. That law prohibits large social media companies from censoring or deplatforming private users without immediately and thoroughly explaining why.
Perez-Poveda has been in the news before for her pro-life efforts, and was once shoved to the ground by a 19-year-old patient of A Woman’s Choice after allegedly taking photos of cars coming to the facility. The teen was charged with battery on a person over 65.
