Trump can't block Twitter followers, federal judge says
Source: CNBC
President Donald Trump cannot block users on his Twitter feed, a federal judge in New York City ruled Wednesday.
Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald said in her ruling that Trump is violating the U.S. Constitution by preventing certain Americans from viewing his tweets. The social media platform, she said, is a "designated public forum" from which Trump cannot exclude individual plaintiffs.
Buchwald's ruling was in response to a lawsuit filed last July by the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, as well as seven other plaintiffs who said they had been blocked on Twitter by Trump.
Trump's blocks on the social media platform prevented the plaintiffs from viewing or responding to the president's tweets when logged into their own Twitter accounts.
Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/05/23/trump-cant-block-twitter-followers-federal-judge-says.html
Corgigal
(9,291 posts)Stop wasting taxpayers money.
apnu
(8,756 posts)Waaaaaaaay more.
But hopefully he shuts up. We can all take a nap.
apnu
(8,756 posts)They way he shouts everything is exhausting.
SHUT UP TRUMP!
notdarkyet
(2,226 posts)Mike Nelson
(9,955 posts)...the President of the United States of America would have something better to do than block people on social media sites.
jpak
(41,758 posts)So much winning....
C_U_L8R
(45,002 posts)apnu
(8,756 posts)Like most Social Networking generation technologists, they struggle to provide a product that works right for its users. Twitter has a long history of tolerating all kinds of dubious behavior (racism, sexism, xenophobia, illegal usage, cyberbullying) and making all sorts of noises about fixing these things and fails to deliver on the noises it makes. Facebook and Reddit are no different. Although Reddit did improve somewhat, if only to avoid turning into another version of 4Chan. Keep in mind, Reddit had to be publicly shamed into closing incest and pedophilia related subreddits.
That whole generation of communication products has these problems.
Yonnie3
(17,441 posts)Official statements can certainly be used to prove intent.
Javaman
(62,530 posts)just so I can call him brainless every single fucking day.
SunSeeker
(51,557 posts)inwiththenew
(972 posts)I don't tweet but I know of friends who have been blocked by other politicians.
SunSeeker
(51,557 posts)From the article, describing the ruling:
"The answer to both questions is no."
TygrBright
(20,760 posts)SunSeeker
(51,557 posts)It is a public forum, so the First Amendment applies. He can't block speech just because he disagrees with it.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)global cultural changes of our modern times.
New crimes pop up as they always do and the justice system and society have to travel the path along with them.
This stuff fascinates me. Its living history as it it progresses.
onecaliberal
(32,861 posts)Mr.Bill
(24,292 posts)Absolutely nothing.
OliverQ
(3,363 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,986 posts)I can still give nasty replies
madville
(7,410 posts)I'm sure most politicians have blocked twitter users at some point.