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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: 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.