Seems very plausible that the president blocking people on Twitter could constitute a First Amendment abridgment http://www.nationallawjournal.com/legaltimeshome/id=1202792711986 …
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Obama blocked people from accessing his POTUS account but Trump's personal account is the issuepic.twitter.com/DXEr9MPOeG
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If so, that would also mean that twitter couldn't suspend accounts for anything said to anyone in elected office. On same 1A grounds.
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can twitter ban and/or throttle political speech?
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They can still @ him. They just have to type his handle. I am blocked by
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“Congress shall make no law…" I missed the part where using a private service is a law.
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Ah that dubious introduction. Lest we forget which branches of government we actually delineated power to.
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That's not what the 1st Amdmt says:"Congress shall make no law...prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech"
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Technically can't you still
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That's his personal account which was created before he became president. They can still use POTUS
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You have a right to free speech, but no right to be heard or engaged.
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Key assumption is "public forum" part. Private twitter account unlikely to be held as public forum.
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Thats a pretty big stretch, since its on a privately owned platform.
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Face to face conversations between a president and a citizen would also be a form of political speech, but we don't mind that's limited.
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Why wouldn't that apply to all elected officials then? My State Senator blocked me on twitter.
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