Posted on 08/24/2019 7:32:29 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
The Department of Justice (DOJ) on Friday asked a federal appeals court to reconsider a case in which President Trump was told he could not legally b lock people on Twitter from seeing his tweets.
The DOJ’s Friday court filing requests a rehearing from the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals, which has not yet said whether it will hear the case, CNN reported.
In the filing, the DOJ argued that Trump — whose personal Twitter account is not owned by the federal government and which was used by Trump for years prior to taking office — should be able to choose who accesses and interacts with his account, according to CNN.
“An official’s decision to exclude someone from his personal residence would not exercise the authority of the government, even if he were giving official statements on that property on that day,” the court filing reportedly reads. “And what is true for real property is likewise true for a social media account.”
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In the ruling, the court said Trump “engaged in unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination by utilizing Twitter's 'blocking' function to limit certain users' access to his social media account, which is otherwise open to the public at large, because he disagrees with their speech."
The court gives bullies the right to bully and you have no right to stop them.
it was an absurd ruling. you ought to be able block people from sending threats and insults at you.
“And what is true for real property is likewise true for a social media account.”
Yes, and including search and seizure.
GO TRUMP!
Google, Twitter, YouTube, etc. can ban anybody online they want but not the President of the United States.
So Trump can’t block people, but twatter can!
So, either Twitter is a private company or it is subject to regulation. That is where this is headed.
it was an absurd ruling. you ought to be able block people from sending threats and insults at you.
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But to do so would be a huge waste of time. Trump’s time. Trump has something like 62,000,000 followers on Twitter. I’m betting that the great majority of them could be Freepers and they would fit right in.
But millions of Twitter users HATE DONALD TRUMP. I think that group is a very much in the minority but it’s a full time job trying to block them all. A waste of time.
The problem that Trump is looking at is real. But his proposed solution is just wrong. The problem with Twitter is that 95% of the comments that bubble to the top from a group that naturally supporters Trump are NEGATIVE.
That’s the Twitter Algorithm. Done blame the users. There’s too many of them. Start a conversation about the very real Twitter Marxist Bias instead.
Than why can Fakebook and Twitter block you?
Private companies still have to follow regulations.
“”Unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination’?””
WOW - that is really a mouthful. Think about it. Isn’t that what all social media does when they don’t agree with someone’s opinion? Isn’t that what the MSM does every hour they are on the air? Where in the devil do these phrases come from? Do they just fall out of the sky every day?
Tell that to privately owned bakeries and florist shops, particularly Christian owned ones!
If these PRIVATELY OWNED businesses can be told what to do, then so can Twitter. YouTube, Facebook, etc!
Every conservative blocked by a prominent Democratic Party politician should sue if this ruling stands.
If Trump can’t ban liberal bullies, then we can attack Twitter admin for violating people’s civil rights in shadow banning, throttling and outright banning them.
block people on Twitter from seeing his tweets.
I don’t know. I don’t twit. ...Though I do click on links and read specific tweets.
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