Twitter is a private company who allows the public to use its service. It has its own rules that people who sign up with Twitter have contracted with Twitter to follow, and which establish that its users must obey its rules and are likewise protected by its rules. Twitters rules allow Twitter users to deny anyone from making “tweets” to be seen on their account.
The entire association is a “private association” agreed to between Twitter and Twitter users. It is only as “open to the public” as Twitter, its rules, and its users decide, with as much as the agreement they have allows them to.
SCOTUS will undo the ruling of the judge from the court for the Southern District of New York.
Twitter is a publicly traded company.
If this idiotic decision stands, the law suits against Alex Jones should be thrown out.
I don’t know; does SCOTUS really have to touch this case with a ten foot pole? Pretty sure it’ll get tossed at the circuit level; I mean, hell, the massive amount this would affect government social media would be an absolute nightmare. If my (extremely liberal) congresscritter deletes my reply on Facebook, is it now a federal court case?
This is just...unmanageable. Plus there’s the whole ‘takings’ issue which the judge randomly decided to ignore - the twitter account is President Trump’s to use under the user agreement on Twitter and certainly not public property in any respect. And twitter accounts have value, especially ones with that big of a following - the feds going to cough up fair market value for the account? Didn’t think so.
The circuit will quietly shove this into the waste bin, unless some moron decides to go for immediate implementation.