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Twitter, You operates as a ‘designated public forum’ for First Amendment purposes, and accordingly the viewpoint-based blocking and censoring of m
Twitter account: @support, You operates as a ‘designated public forum’ for First Amendment purposes, and accordingly the viewpoint-based blocking of my followers is unconstitutional,” HNewsWire and StevieRay Hansen ask that you unblock any others who have blocked for similar reasons.” Criticism is not censorship, and no matter how insistent Twitter’s free speech brigade might be, I felt safe knowing that we could always go back to the text. “The Constitution” is on my side. Facts had power,Tweeter pretending to care about freedom of speech so they can feel self-righteous while harassing marginalized people for having opinions.Tweeter did not have a right to exclude Stevierayhanse1 or HNewsWire critics from engaging with his followers posts. “Discourse” is good! Sunlight is the best disinfectant! The more airtime we give to irrational bigots on high-profile platforms — the more assiduously we hear both sides,…
Read MoreTwitter: Users blocked by President Trump after they criticized or mocked him are asking him to reverse the moves, arguing that the Constitution bars
WASHINGTON —Tweeter: Users blocked by President Trump after they criticized or mocked him are asking him to reverse the moves, arguing that the Constitution bars him from blocking people on the social media service. The request raises novel legal issues stemming from Mr. Trump’s use of his Twitter account, @realDonaldTrump, to make statements about public policy. In a letter sent to Mr. Trump on Tuesday, lawyers for several users he has blocked argued that his account was a “public forum” from which the government may not constitutionally exclude people because it disagrees with views they have expressed. “This Twitter account operates as a ‘designated public forum’ for First Amendment purposes, and accordingly the viewpoint-based blocking of our clients is unconstitutional,” the letter said. “We ask that you unblock them and any others who have been blocked for similar reasons.” Photo…
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