from what this is saying, the idea of a public forum is that the government cannot tell people where they can assemble. their example is a town forbidding a meeting hall owner from renting out to communists to host a public meeting.

legal Definition of open forum
: a government property that is opened to the public for expressive activities of any kind — compare limited public forum

I found this definition in a website that is like a dictionary for lawyers

The argument, as I've seen it presented has been ```1. Any action taken by the president is an action of the government
2. Donald Trump's personal twitter account is to be considered an open public forum
3. Twitter, as a whole, as a privately owned company, may remain a private forum```

Have I misrepresented anything?

the problem is we need the exact legal definition

there is probably some supporting premises missing from some of those but yes

also other questions like do you own your twitter account

all of the legal definitions im seeing say that the forum must belong to the government

@Ivanfr which is why i just asked the question, do you own your twitter account

So, let's address #1.

no, twitter does

And I'm switching to metaphor for my case

I have no right to my twitter account, I just hope twitter lets me use it

I havent paid for ity

it*

If Elon Musk were to kick someone from his house

and im pretty sure when I accepted the ToS it says that I dont own shit and twitter are the supreme god of their virtual land

true. Yet apparently you have a right to the data generated by using it.

Is this the action of Elon Musk, or is it an official action of a company he owns?

or at least that is what a bunch of congress people who don't know how facebook works seems to think.

Let's just call the government a legal person and be done with it 😛

@RyeNorth its entirely possible

Owns is the wrong term.

He doesn't own it, he represents it. The shareholders own it.

Of which, he may be considered to be one,

Tesla or SpaceX cant suffer legal consequences for what Elon Musk says in his private life

well, it can depending on what he does

give me an example

Alright, let's reframe this question, then.

Does Elon Musk require the power of being the CEO of SpaceX to kick someone out of his living room?

Or, would this be a privilege any property owner would have?

I wonder if Trump deleted Obama's tweets from the @POTUS account

and unfollowed HIllary Clinton

😄

I think Twitter actually designated @POTUS as a special account

There's convoluted work related hypotheticals, but, in general, it's the right of being a property holder

the main reason Trump does not use it.

not exactly the prefect example. his house would also need to be spacex property

Why would it also need to be spacex property?

It's his own living room.

He's had the living room before he was CEO of spaceX