Posted on 05/23/2018 10:21:24 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
A federal district court judge on Wednesday ruled that President Trump can't block people from viewing his Twitter feed over their political views.
Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald, of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, said President Trump’s Twitter account is a public forum and blocking people who reply to his tweets with differing opinions constitutes viewpoint discrimination, which violates the First Amendment.
The court’s ruling is a major win for the Knight Foundation, which brought the lawsuit on behalf of seven people who were blocked from the @realDonaldTrump account because of opinions they expressed in reply tweets.
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I’m quite sure twitter itself will be happy to enforce this ruling by removing the ability to block users from the @realdonaldtrump account.
So Naomi. Any “friends” who “defriend” you on Facebook are breaking the law and can’t do it? Wow! You da man!!!
Let me guess, an 0bama appointee.
5.56mm
Clinton affirmative action Jackson appointee
Did the judge check with Fakebook and Google relative to the collateral damage?
“Judge Kangaroo will be overturned. Watch.”
Oh, PDJT will appeal it, no doubt!
I have two people BANNED from my FB account. To them, I don’t even exist.
It was their BAD BEHAVIOR that made me take those measures; nothing *I* did to them.
‘Public Forum’ or not, there ARE tools you can use to protect yourself from creeps.
Either President Trump can block people OR he can’t and.....Twitter, Facebook, Youtube/Google etc cannot block or censor others for expressing their views either. That too is viewpoint discrimination.
Yet another ‘judge’ unworthy of the Bench.
Go home and practice your meatballs, Naomi.
The 1st amendment doesn’t say: “The President shall make no laws...”.
‘Course, the Constitution has been riddled with bullet holes over the years...
The ramifications of this ruling, if not overturned, are mind boggling.
Are they now 'public utilities'?
Exactly.
Twitter is a publicly traded company.
If this idiotic decision stands, the law suits against Alex Jones should be thrown out.
All President Trump has to do is IGNORE the so-called “Judge” and block whomever he WANTS. The so-called “Judge” has violated the separation-of-powers doctrine, and the impotent “Judge” can in no way enforce his so-called “ruling” anyway. PERIOD!
I’ll bet the farm they were blocked for vulgarity and obscenity rather than for “having a different opinion”.
Insanity of the left exhibit zzz.
facebook does
I’ll bet the farm they were blocked for vulgarity and obscenity rather than for “having a different opinion”.
......If so Trump’s lawyers should state that as the sole reason. Not because of different opinions.
Trumps lawyers should stay far away and let Trump ignore this ruling.
“Twitter is a publicly traded company.”
The “public” in that statement ONLY means it’s stock is traded on a “public” stock exchange, and that does not change the nature of the company from private to “public”. It is a company “privately” owned by its stockholders, and is run on their behalf, not on behalf of “the public”.
Right. I have no twitter account and view what I want. Furthermore, twitter keyword searches by non-account holders can be done in real time as twitter postings happen.
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