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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: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 25 2018, @09:56PM (1 child)
He donated his salary as a PR move, he's making WAY more money by simply being the president. However it is a really good sound bite for morons who can't see beyond the surface details. "He's so rich he's donating 400k to help fix the government!!!" laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawl
Trump pegged you tards from the start, "I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn't lose voters."
Y'all are suckers and got taken for a massive ride by a conman. The sooner you come to terms with that the better for literally everyone.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 25 2018, @10:42PM
By simply being the president, he has lost about a billion dollars.
Sure, I'd have voted for him if he stood in the middle of 5th avenue and shot someone. He couldn't have shot Vince Foster and Seth Rich.