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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: 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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