Posted on 07/09/2019 1:56:27 PM PDT by Monrose72
The 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals ruled on July 9 that President Donald Trump violated the First Amendment when he blocked users from viewing and commenting on his Twitter messages. The court determined that Trump’s Twitter account is an official rather than a personal account, making his use of Twitter’s blocking feature akin to a government official excluding people he or she doesn’t agree with from a public forum. Trump’s attorneys argued that his Twitter account is a personal one. The court wasn’t convinced, writing in the opinion that the account’s landing page bears “all the trappings of an official state‐run account.”
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but occasio cortez can block people?
This is great, now Lexi Occasional Cortex has to unblock me.
You're the one that lives in Seattle
Libertarians are a war plan.
... that the party is never smart enough to follow.
He needs to set up his own website and just lay out his comments. Why use twitter if you don’t want feedback.
And the way the leftists would deal with this is simply have EVERYONE report the person who Trump cant block. Say something insulting to him, everyone who supports him reports the post en-mass. Time to either fight dirty or just accept that we are going to lose this war.
No one’s right to free speech is blocked when they are not allowed to reply to a Twitter post.
There is no constitutional right to be heard, or to have someone listen to you.
At some point this platform versus publisher thing has to be settled, they are obviously operating as publishers with all the legal protections of a platform, which they are abusing.
Libertarians are a war plan.
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Yes, for Libertarians who run as 3rd party candidates, their plan is to LOSE, look BEFUDDLED and then claim that their loss (with simultaneous ‘RAT victory) was really a win.
So the court effectively ruled that Hate is a 1st Amendment right.
>> Libertarians are a war plan.
Seriously?
Islam is a war plan.
AOC is being sued for blocking. She’ll lose.
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