They tried to force me to give them my phone# when I signed up

Oh I had to give my phone twice

and after that they made my twitter unusable for no reason

probably because I follow conservatives

It makes absolutely zero sense that a particular twitter account can be an open public forum

that is courted off by a private forum

That is to say

If you're in this space over here, you're good

Thing is, the whole thing sounds petty

but you can't GET to this space if we don't want you to.

@RyeNorth
`A public forum is a place that has, by tradition or practice, been held out for general use by the public for speech-related purposes.

To determine which of the standards of student expression applies in a given case, many courts first conduct a "public forum analysis." The public forum analysis determines whether individuals may have access to places for communicative purposes.1

There are three types of public forums:

I. A "traditional", or "open, public forum" is a place with a long tradition of freedom of expression, such as a public park or a street corner. The government can normally impose only content-neutral time, place, and manner restrictions on speech in a public forum. Restrictions on speech in a public forum that are based on content will be struck down, unless the government can show the restriction is necessary to further a compelling governmental interest.`

if trump is not the president, in terms of the government position, at all times. Then what is stopping him from prevent people going to an open public form? so long as its done as Trump and with his own resources, not those of the government or in official government capacity

You need to post the other two, Twitter is not a traditional public forum.

The twitter thing is complete nonsense

Twitter has traditionally been censorious.

someone got salty af that Trump blocked them

thats all there is to it

^ ^ ^

Pretty much.

They were making money off of their promotion from countertweeting trump

Bess Kalb, All the way down.

I doubt it was so much “salt” as much as they saw it personally advantageous for their Brand

As an aspiring twitter journo

@RyeNorth i am not talking about twitter atm, but to your point that Trump is not representative of the government or wield government power at all time. I'm asking when does his actions cross the line from private citizen to government official?

Twitter is id; expect nonsense

and yes, its clear someone was salty

There is @POTUS and then there is Trump's personal twitter accoutn

I mean the line of him not being government seemed liek a personal opinion. He is always government until he leaves office.

When he executes government-issued power.

When he signs a bill into law

when he drafts and signs an executive order

it takes neither of these to block someone on twitter

Twitter blocking is a privilege to all

okay, so he can block people from entering an open public form, so long as its done with his own private resources, not the government/

You're basing this around the argument that his twitter is an open public forum.

You have yet to establish this, other than pointing at an activist ruling.

Twitter is not a public forum

twitter is a private company

twitter can delete Trump account, or block ppl on his behalf

@Ivanfr this ruling doesn't do anything to change that. it only dictates what the government can do, not twitter

they can do anything they want

Donald Trump's twitter is not the government.