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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pro-Trump trolls who posture as warriors for Free Speech but don't care about this very obvious abridgment are, unsurprisingly, a bit dull.
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Relatedly, this is a key point. Despite being a private company, Twitter still has certain 1st Amendment obligationshttps://twitter.com/JameelJaffer/status/886039474685214721 …
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Trump's blocking of them does exactly none of those things. They can still participate, view his tweets, and petition the government.
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His own twitter account is no different to mine, he had it before office, someone calls me a pos i'll block them.
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A leftist case of, I can't get what I want personally from the president, so I'm going to pitch a fit. They can READ his tweets elsewhere.
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Logistically, not so easy for orgs & blue checkmarks who are blocked to shapeshift overnight into a new acct & expect to have same reach.
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so will this then extend to make it illegal to block people on social media for any and all people? doesn't this risk appraising speech?
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twitter interface limits individual ability to make tweets visible for blocked users - these limitations can't stand in for intent
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The left's ability to troll on someone else's personal account is not an inherent right. Every individual has the right to block abuse.
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Trumps private account is not a public govt forum. He has a right to administer his private account. Engaging him on Twitter is a privilege.
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Couldn't the blue-checkmarked journalists who tweet a thousand things at him the nanosecond Trump tweets be considered harassing, then?
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Simple flaw: use of personal twitter account is NOT public forum.
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Nonsense. You have no "right" to Twitter.
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If that is the precedent then what about Twitter censorship and removing people for certain opinions?
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