Message from @ryuplaneswalker

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2018-12-10 23:52:36 UTC  

atm it only applies to trump's page

2018-12-10 23:52:55 UTC  

and, the worst possible reading of it (which is probably the correct reading)
is that the official cannot ban
but twitter is in no way restricted

2018-12-10 23:53:11 UTC  

there was some county official somewhere in a similar case

2018-12-10 23:53:15 UTC  

everyone else in government can block people, and twitter openly acknowledges they block conservatives

2018-12-10 23:53:35 UTC  

no - government officials can be sued for blocking people on social media now

2018-12-10 23:53:54 UTC  

they took the ability off of trump's page

2018-12-10 23:53:55 UTC  

I am not sure which jurisdictions, but there have already been at least 2 cases

2018-12-10 23:54:05 UTC  

yeah

2018-12-10 23:54:29 UTC  

so twitter can claim, for now, that they are within their rights to do that
while deleting every account they want to

2018-12-10 23:55:02 UTC  

accounts they themselves say have a 1st amendment right to access to donald trump's twitter page

2018-12-10 23:55:19 UTC  

so it seems

2018-12-10 23:55:39 UTC  

again, the first amendment restricts government action, not private action

2018-12-10 23:55:40 UTC  

so

2018-12-10 23:55:49 UTC  

twitter can moderate, but Trump cannot

2018-12-10 23:56:04 UTC  

that will eventually fall, I think

2018-12-10 23:56:10 UTC  

but they can claim that posture until it does

2018-12-10 23:56:23 UTC  

blocking anyone prevents access to trump's page, which they claim is protected legally

2018-12-10 23:56:30 UTC  

at the end of the day, the solution will be to move away from twitter

2018-12-10 23:56:36 UTC  

that is hypocritical

2018-12-10 23:56:37 UTC  

well it doesn't actually

2018-12-10 23:56:39 UTC  

there is this thing

2018-12-10 23:56:41 UTC  

called Logging out

2018-12-10 23:56:49 UTC  

and boom, you can see his page.

2018-12-10 23:56:56 UTC  

you just can't REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE at him

2018-12-10 23:56:57 UTC  

but cannot reply

2018-12-10 23:56:58 UTC  

it was directly including posting to his page

2018-12-10 23:57:03 UTC  

it is freedom of speech

2018-12-10 23:57:10 UTC  

i.e. the freedom to REEEEEEEE

2018-12-10 23:57:24 UTC  

not just reading, they included posting to his page under that federal ruling

2018-12-10 23:57:26 UTC  

There is nothing in Freedom of Speech that say you are able to REEEEEEE at the president directly.

2018-12-10 23:57:40 UTC  

in a public forum?

2018-12-10 23:57:42 UTC  

sure there is

2018-12-10 23:57:53 UTC  

You can still say the things you want to say

2018-12-10 23:58:03 UTC  

you just can't ping his phone.

2018-12-10 23:58:28 UTC  

Well that judge is wrong.

2018-12-10 23:58:34 UTC  

by that standard

2018-12-10 23:58:41 UTC  

twitter was on the judge's side

2018-12-10 23:58:47 UTC  

yes

2018-12-10 23:58:56 UTC  

any citizen should be able to get direct access to the Oval Office for a 1 on 1 meeting

2018-12-10 23:59:03 UTC  

the ruling put twitter in the position they wanted to be in, short term