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President Trump's practice of blocking Twitter users who are critical of him from seeing his posts on the social media platform violates the First Amendment, a federal judge in Manhattan ruled on Wednesday.
The ruling came in a case brought by seven Twitter users who had been blocked by the @realDonaldTrump account after they criticized the president.
The plaintiffs, who were joined in the suit by the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, claimed that Mr. Trump's Twitter feed is an official government account and that blocking users from following it was a violation of their First Amendment rights.
In her ruling, Federal District Court Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald wrote of the plaintiffs that "the speech in which they seek to engage is protected by the First Amendment" and that Mr. Trump and Dan Scavino, the White House social media director, "exert governmental control over certain aspects of the @realDonaldTrump account."
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/23/business/media/trump-twitter-block.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytimes
See also: http://time.com/4808270/sean-spicer-donald-trump-twitter-statements/:
When asked at a press briefing whether Trump's tweets qualify as official statements on behalf of the White House, Spicer said that he "is the President of the United States, so they're considered official statements by the President of the United States."
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 25 2018, @04:23PM (4 children)
Your Tribal "Us Versus Them" Mentality Makes You At Least Half Wrong
Republicans are typically rural dumbfuck hillbillies that vote for people who talk about the things that scare them. I base this on any political map compared with any state GDP map. Well, guess what, it's not the "brown people", the "gays" or even the "liberals" causing your problems, it's the FACT THAT YOU KEEP VOTING FOR PEOPLE WHO DON'T SUPPORT YOUR BEST INTERESTS. Here's a mental exercise if you can fucking manage it. Try to keep up: Has voting for Republicans ever directly improved your life? How? How do you know it was because of the Republicans? See if you can answer those questions without the answer being dependent on someone else being denied something because "gays marrying", "abortions", "terrorism", and "brown people" really don't make *your* shitty little life any worse, dickhead*. But if you got this far, now see if you can find proof of the Republicans actually being responsible for it. No, no, no, I mean actual proof, not the regurgitated smegma spewed into your eyes and ears by what passes for your "news sources" you psycho fucking nutjobs. Your extremes are neo-nazis, people who thought the crusades were a good idea, and people who think it's okay if people starve to death in the street. That should be a WARNING SIGN, you misguided retards.
* This bears a goddamned footnote because I really want to drive home how much you hate the things you think you support. Freedom? Nope, because you get pissed when people exercise their right to assembly, their choice to not respect your hideous fucking flag, or their choice to fuck whoever they wish. Life? Well, you sure do hate abortions and birth control, but you shitheads seem to really pop a stiffy over war and the death penalty so quick that it seems like it must be a better choice for you limp, impotent sadists than viagra is. On the topic of viagra, you also hate nationalized healthcare too. So by all accounts it sounds to me like you confused dumbfucks really hate life because you want it to happen, but then refuse to help it continue and then invent still MORE reasons to kill people. Fuck pro-life, I think you're pro-fucking-murder. You just don't like abortions because that's less people to fucking slaughter. Limited government? Guess not that either since you masturbate over the DHS, police in jackboots, and the fucking "patriot" act. Nope, your entire platform centers around making sure the Democrats don't get what they want, and also guns too, because why the fuck not. You're not a political party, you're a frighteningly well-organized mob of dogs that bark at strange noises on command, and you're really shitty for it.
Meanwhile, the esteemed Democrats are smug dipshits not nearly as bright as they think they are. They want to be well-meaning and enlightened, as long as it doesn't take real work and everyone is super polite about it. You smear your ivory tower "better-than-thou" bullshit everywhere and then wonder why the Republicans are just such gosh darn meanies to you. Guess what? Spend enough years shitting on people, calling them stupid and uneducated, and making absolutely zero effort to consider them in your politics, and yeah, they'll fucking lash out at you. They might even elect some noisy shitbag for the schadenfreude. Turns out you were right: They ARE shitty horrible people that do shitty horrible things when antagonized. Now you got Trump who's recreationally undoing everything good and bad your lord and savior Obama accomplished throughout his entire two terms and you limp-wristed ninnies DON'T HAVE A WAY TO DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT. Happy Fucking Congratulations!
And your extremes are pretty fucking shitty too. I shouldn't have to explain this to you retarded man-children, but stamping your feet and dressing up like the Veit fucking Cong because "the president claims he'll build a wall" doesn't make you an enlightened individual. It doesn't solve anything other than get the morons on the other extremes riled up enough to want to fuck with you, but maybe that's what you WANT. Nowhere else have I seen so many people so completely devoted to victimhood, you'd think it was some creepy fucking religion. And you manage to fight between yourselves to be the MOST victimized. The saddest part is that the Republicans manage to only be your second worst enemy just behind yourselves. You HAD the last election in your grasp. All you had to do was put someone, literally anyone in front of a podium that wasn't Hillary Fucking Clinton. Sanders would have won the election. Fuck, Biden could have won THAT election. Sure, you don't believe me. You don't have to believe me. But you know who else couldn't win the election? Hillary Fucking Clinton. The difference between me and you out-of-touch myopic fucking mouthbreathers is that you either didn't look for the signs, or you just didn't care because it was "time for a woman president". Just so you know, the message that provides to anyone who leans even SLIGHTLY right is "Don't elect me on my merits, elect me because I'm the fucking diversity hire". MORE victimization. A little tip for you is that you CAN elect a woman. That's fine. Just give people some more goddamn reasons to vote for someone beyond a set of fucking ovaries. I'm sorry, but that's not going to cut it. And you could go to ANY sleazebag right wing forum and you'd have seen there were a lot of outspoken Bernie fans even there. Did you even LOOK at your opposition's strategy? Did you read what their own people were saying? Once again, you push people away and alienate them not for merit, but for identity, and given your fetish for victimhood, I'm starting to wonder if it's not intentional. You guys are literal losers. That's almost worse than being horrible.
I would wish you all luck but frankly I'm not sure you'd know what to do with it.
Fuck.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 25 2018, @04:48PM (2 children)
Heh, then we get some genius pointing out what everybody already knows without a single shred of helpful advice. Yup, you're the worst one here with the judgmental know-it-all syndrome. It is easy to point out problems, fixing them is something else. Do you feel better at least?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 26 2018, @12:33AM (1 child)
No. They don't and you probably don't either. But you think you do? Fucking amazing. Give yourself a gold star and then start screaming it from the fucking rooftops. Be the ugly truth people don't want to look at. Tear little holes in the modern world's madness. For every clash of Jim Bob Married-His-Cousin in their MAGA hats and every dipshit college student in black pajamas that things they have it right, drop some industrial strength white noise machines throughout their crowds. Distribute propaganda showing that there is a third way. Don't be part of the problem. Be part of the problem's problem. Save the world! Kill a pundit!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday May 26 2018, @04:07PM
Do not let your hatred settle in too far for your own sake. It is difficult to work it back out and it really does hurt you more than the people you are angry at.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday May 25 2018, @07:20PM
*slow clap*
Bra-vo, sir. That was a Carlinesque rant for the ages, and more correct than most people want to admit. It's just a shame all the local pearl-clutching RWNJ snowflakes are going to ignore it because, horror of horrors, you said a swear or ninety.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...