so I guess it is official in some sense

or, well, one is the voice of the president, the other is of his poor PR team

someone said my name?

Have you considered that the tone Trump takes in his twitter, it's more of a direct line to the people who voted for him?

His Twitter is for the sake of his supporters, at the expense of his detractors.

If it's a public forum, it's going to be a shitshow

I'm willing to bet it gets beat down tho

if it doesn't it's gonna be really fucking weird

I'm willing to bet Twitter will BEG for it to get beat down.

yes

why? twitter is not affected by the statement

Because if not, everyone in the US will need to purge all public figure's bans

They inherently are.

they could still ban trumps account if it violated ToS

er

I worded that for SHIT

what are the official ways the President talks to the public?

Every public figure in the US will need to immediately unban everyone from the US that they blocked

If they're the stewards of an open public forum, they are required to observe the first amendment as well.

@OliveBlanc every public figure? or every government official?

But then there's going to be a lead-in from the people who are using VPN's

yes

well, govt'

sorry, again

Im not from America so im not familiar with this, in my country the govt owns 2 of the TV channels and they use them to talk to the ppl

It might eventually trickle down to that

But I don't see it in the neigh future

If we go by your logic, Grenade

The Governor is never NOT representing the state.

honestly, the governor sorta is never not representing the state

Judges are never NOT making statements edging towards policy.

they're representing the state when they put a klan uniform, when they take a dump and when they call little kids fags

The President is not unique in his representation of the government.

yup

He's just up there because he's honestly just a badass

If we're going to say that only Donald Trump's twitter account applies

that's an activist decision.

It's either all going to hold up to appeal, or none of it

My intent here was to argue the point independent of the ruling

@RyeNorth judges actually have a distinct time when they are not working. However, they are always representing themselves, which means they are always representing what position they might take on a topic, so yes.

There must be a official way of communicating with the public, it cant be twitter and late night shows

there is

emails and phone calls

and they are all logged and I think subjected to FOIA requests

If they expand twitter to that

fuck

That'll be INSANE

holy shit you have no idea

lol

they officially talk to the public through leaked emails on wiki leaks

Will his private messages be FOIA'd?

Yeah, fuck, didn't consider that

I'm wondering what'll happen to all of the banned americans

the US slidin' into his DMs

if it's a public forum, how can you be banned from it?

@OliveBlanc depends on how you define it. it seems public forum says they government can't block you from it

@Grenade123 xDDD

Especially if you're not a felon... supposing it'd be some special case like voting rights or 2a rights

also, its just trumps twitter account

Question, when Trump appears on Jimmy Kimmel is he representing the govt?

(((officially)))

yes

I would say so

while he is the president? yes

then twitter is the same as taht

obv. idgaf once he's out of office

"Government can designate public property as a forum for all speakers or for a certain class of speakers (such as students or newspapers on postal property). At the same time, government can designate a lot of private property, such as shopping malls, but also communications infrastructure, such as cable systems and phone systems."

Well, is jimmy kimmel a public forum?

I don't think so.

but he can choose what TV show to go to and which ones not

for example he didnt go to Conan

cus Conan is a leftie

even tho I like his comedy

they can just declare a private area is now a public forum?

I mean thats ur argument isnt it?

unless ur arguments is that the President's life is now public propierty or something like that

not the rest of twitter users

Sure. But would it hold up if not everyone can access it?

the rest of twitter isn't a public forum

Exactly!

so is that about public forums but about the behaviour of the president while he is in office

You see my point!

just his twitter, specifically his tweets

is not*

kk

In order for declaring the public space

that is the official ruling

you would have to declare a public path TO that public space.

well perfect, now twitter can unban conservatives

That's what I've been getting at this whole time.

then the leftists will scream

Yuuuuup

and either the ruling will be reversed, or twitter will die

We're on the same page, now.

still not seeing the downside of this ruling regardless

Does a President have a right to a personal public life while in office?

I'm not saying there IS a downside

I'm saying it's a case of activist leftists being shortsighted as they are want to be.

i mean, it was never in question who wanted this

Oh, right.