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Blocked by Trump: Twitter Users Sound Off on Being Barred
NYT ^ | May 23, 2018 | Maya Salam

Posted on 05/24/2018 6:34:58 AM PDT by yesthatjallen

By blocking users on Twitter, President Trump has violated the First Amendment, a federal judge ruled on Wednesday.

The lawsuit was brought by seven Twitter users — including a Texas police officer, a New York comedy writer and a Nashville surgeon — who claimed that Mr. Trump’s Twitter feed was an official government account and that preventing users from following it was unconstitutional.

In her ruling, Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald wrote that the plaintiffs who sought to view and engage with Mr. Trump’s tweets alongside those who were not restricted were “protected by the First Amendment.” The judge, though, did not require the president or Twitter to unblock anyone.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: travestyofasham; trump; twitter
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To: Enterprise

“Viewpoint discrimination” - a new made up law, one that can be applied to the left on everything.


21 posted on 05/24/2018 7:02:48 AM PDT by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing consequences of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: Enterprise

That does create a little bit of a conundrum doesn’t it?


22 posted on 05/24/2018 7:05:15 AM PDT by volunbeer (Find the truth and accept it - anything else is delusional)
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To: iontheball; clee1; libh8er; ELS
One can never tell these days between he or she. Sometimes Bruce Jenner looks more womanly.


23 posted on 05/24/2018 7:07:01 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: yesthatjallen

Maybe Trump should block all comments and use Twitter as only a medium for his statements.

Someone could create another twitter account called, say, RepliesToTrump where people could reply. Trump couldn’t shut that down so that should make the banned people happy.

I thought I read that Obama blocked repliers from his Twitter account.


24 posted on 05/24/2018 7:16:25 AM PDT by cymbeline
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To: yesthatjallen
The judge, though, did not require the president or Twitter to unblock anyone.

The proverbial "$1 judgement win."

25 posted on 05/24/2018 7:24:25 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: yesthatjallen

There’s no constitutional requirement for nobility in free speech. When gov or officials open a medium for public communication the public can respond.

So blocking twitter or other social media would be like blocking people from speaking at town halls.

Town halls and the like are allowed parliamentary procedure whereby people go to the podium and speak for 2 mins or what not, but the nature of social media has no such procedure other than the responses themselves.

What would be really interesting is if someone posted illegal porn. That would certainly get taken down, but laws making that stuff illegal are statutory, not at the level of the constitution. Taken to court, there would be a legal conundrum.


26 posted on 05/24/2018 7:24:43 AM PDT by fruser1
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To: libh8er; clee1
"Judge is a she..."

OP probably saw judge's picture before reading the judge's name. I can understand the confusion...


27 posted on 05/24/2018 7:33:41 AM PDT by moovova
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To: yesthatjallen; goldstategop; clee1; Enterprise; Kriggerel; rightwingintelligentsia; RayChuang88; ...
Twitter has a policy against "targeted harassment".

The plaintiffs were actually surreptitiously arguing that they had a First Amendment right to violate Twitter policy on "targeted harassment" without consequence on the platform.

See Daxton Brown's post on getting suspended by Twitter four times.

I myself have lost a Twitter account for political speech.

I've seen Trump tweets where these screamers get on and vomit multiple abusive tweets targeting Trump, Republicans and conservatives.

It's clearly suspendable behavior - yet Twitter does nothing, "because Lefty".

28 posted on 05/24/2018 7:56:28 AM PDT by kiryandil (Never pick a fight with an angry beehive)
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To: RayChuang88
Besides, he can use the Mute function in Twitter so people tweeting Trump won't know their tweets are being read and their accounts being blocked

They don't care if they're muted.

They just want to vomit on Trump's tweet, so that other Twitter users have to read their poisonous filth.

It's targeted harassment of the most blatant and vile sort, which is a direct violation of Twitter's terms of service.

29 posted on 05/24/2018 7:58:36 AM PDT by kiryandil (Never pick a fight with an angry beehive)
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To: FtrPilot
I believe that there is a twitter account @POTUS created by Obama. All President Trump would have to do is declare the @POTUS account to be the official (government) account and that @realdonaldtrump is his private account.

Actually, I believe that the Democrat Party "judicial activist" judgetard already ruled on that, since President Trump uses his @realDonaldTrump account to make Presidential pronouncements.

The judgetard is a 74-year-old f*ckwit who probably has to have her grandchildren help her find the "On" button on her computer when she wants to use it.

I've seen people like her in the working world.

At her age and level of importance, she has "people" [Mundanes] for dealing with those magic boxes called computers.

Note that Judge F*ckwit doesn't have a Twitter account. Haven't checked, but I don't think she has a Facesucker account, either.

30 posted on 05/24/2018 8:04:27 AM PDT by kiryandil (Never pick a fight with an angry beehive)
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To: fruser1
So blocking twitter or other social media would be like blocking people from speaking at town halls.

You're completely wrong, and you probably don't have a Twitter account.

31 posted on 05/24/2018 8:05:47 AM PDT by kiryandil (Never pick a fight with an angry beehive)
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To: fruser1
What would be really interesting is if someone posted illegal porn

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!

Now I KNOW you don't go on Twitter at all.   ROFL face

32 posted on 05/24/2018 8:07:58 AM PDT by kiryandil (Never pick a fight with an angry beehive)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
Most of the people who reply on the President’s Twitter feed post the vilest, filthiest, most abusive comments imaginable.

Yep.

"Targeted harassment", which is a TOTAL violation of Twitter's Terms of Service.

Yet, their accounts are not suspended - unlike those of the political Right on Twitter...

33 posted on 05/24/2018 8:23:41 AM PDT by kiryandil (Never pick a fight with an angry beehive)
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To: yesthatjallen

Bless their hearts.


34 posted on 05/24/2018 8:39:46 AM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: yesthatjallen

Gee, New York Times, when are you going to interview all of the FReepers who are torked-off about being blocked by Facebook?


35 posted on 05/24/2018 9:05:20 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
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To: clee1

“Ignore the judge. He’s a partisan hack.”

Judge Naomi Buchenwald is a female Capo!


36 posted on 05/24/2018 9:34:40 AM PDT by vette6387
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To: fuzzylogic

On February 5, 2009, the New York Daily News reported that, while presiding over a case involving an autistic boy, Buchwald made a remark about former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin and her Down syndrome child, Trig, saying, “That kid was used as a prop, and that to me as a parent blew my mind.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naomi_Reice_Buchwald


37 posted on 05/24/2018 9:44:12 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: yesthatjallen

But yet “conservatives” are banned. This is utter nonsense. Block all you want. Take it to the Supremes.


38 posted on 05/24/2018 9:50:47 AM PDT by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
There are hundreds of hate-filled people who have nothing better to do than to sit on Twitter all day long, poised at their keyboards, for a Trump Tweet to come through.

There is no other explanation to why there are literally hundreds of nasty comments within seconds of a Trump Tweet. Most of the comments are "canned" and have nothing whatsoever to do with the content of Trump's tweet. So you know they aren't even reading the tweet, they are just responding blindly.

Their object is obviously to flood the zone with negative comments and drown out anybody that might have anything positive to say about our President.

39 posted on 05/24/2018 10:00:25 AM PDT by SamAdams76
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To: DaxtonBrown

I would make it a class action from the start.


40 posted on 05/24/2018 10:23:17 AM PDT by Delta 21 (Build The Wall !! Jail The Cankle !!)
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