so

well, its not twitter that can't block people, its the owner of the account.

now, it would be interesting to see what would happen if twitter banned trumps account

if twitter bans someone that has ever directly engaged with the president on his tweets, thus removing their tweet from the public pervew. are they doing the same thing?

which, didn't it get temp deleted once by a leaving employee?

well they did.. for like a day or something

even if the ban was unrelated

Yeah

this really does open up some legality questions

if twitter is a public forum, even if its only on Trumps tweets

how much control do they have of it?

legally speaking

if its a public forum then doesnt even have the right to assembly

so banning anyone is unconstitutional

reading all the public form clauses, they all say the government cannot impose limits

open forum: "The government can normally impose only content-neutral time, place, and manner restrictions on speech in a public forum."

limited forum: "he government can limit access to certain types of speakers in a limited public forum, or limit the use of such facilities for certain subjects."

III. closed forum: "governmental restrictions on access to a nonpublic forum will be upheld as long as they are reasonable and not based on a desire to suppress a particular viewpoint."

once again, twitter is not the government, trump is the government

so twitter, at least the way i read this, is exempt from public forum rulings. but trump is not.

i.e., twitter can block peoples access, but trump cannot block peoples access

But let's say someone engages with a trump tweet, then later gets banned for a different reason, thus removing their engagement with Trump.. wonder what the thought would be on that?

Would this apply to all public officials?

I think it would have to

Wonder if Obama ever blocked someone before.

Feel like a bunch of instances of it happening might come up.

did obama tweet as his private account or always potus44?

Not sure.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/999367582271422464

or rather

Going to create a site where the public can rate the core truth of any article & track the credibility score over time of each journalist, editor & publication. Thinking of calling it Pravda …

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Hmm. I think it's a great idea but curious how it would work.

Easily abused.

or you know anti-bullying doxxing

Lol Tim already commented on the tweet.

I see that now

Which is exactly why I think it could be abused.

People don't care about truth but rather what makes their side look better.

So they would add scores based on their biases.

Elon's getting fired up lately

wonder what happened

@LotheronPrime like i said, the wording seems to dictate what the government can do. Which is keeping in line with the first amendment. So if twitter decides to ban someone, even if they engaged with a tweet, they are not the government. This would be fine. However, since trump is the president, that basically makes him the government, so if he bans someone, that is the government doing something and they deemed that his tweets are public forms so the government can't do anything