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"President Donald Trump cannot block Twitter users for the political views they have expressed, a federal judge in Manhattan ruled on Wednesday.
Blocking users from viewing his Twitter account — a feature offered by the social media platform — is unconstitutional and a violation of the First Amendment, Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald wrote in her ruling.
"While we must recognize, and are sensitive to, the President’s personal First Amendment rights, he cannot exercise those rights in a way that infringes the corresponding First Amendment rights of those who have criticized him," Buchwald wrote.
The government had argued that blocked individuals could still access the president’s tweets. The judge agreed but said that even considering the president's First Amendment rights, preventing users from interacting directly with him on Twitter represented a violation of a "real, albeit narrow, slice of speech.""
"President Donald Trump cannot block Twitter users for the political views they have expressed, a federal judge in Manhattan ruled on Wednesday.
Blocking users from viewing his Twitter account — a feature offered by the social media platform — is unconstitutional and a violation of the First Amendment, Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald wrote in her ruling.
"While we must recognize, and are sensitive to, the President’s personal First Amendment rights, he cannot exercise those rights in a way that infringes the corresponding First Amendment rights of those who have criticized him," Buchwald wrote.
The government had argued that blocked individuals could still access the president’s tweets. The judge agreed but said that even considering the president's First Amendment rights, preventing users from interacting directly with him on Twitter represented a violation of a "real, albeit narrow, slice of speech.""
i wonder if this interpretation can be spread to cover all social media?
Another look into the Brain of Donald Trump and what a soft, whiney snowflake he is.
Trump loves to rage and rant and scream on Twitter, posting 10+ angry tweets the other day. But he wants to block people who might actually respond to his hateful and rude Tweets.
Yeah that was my question too? If that applies to Trump it should apply to everyone right?
I didn't study all the details here but if he is Tweeting as "the president of the United States" and he has the freedom of speech to do so, I feel like that might be the reason why he can't block anyone. I think if you have a Twitter account used strictly for personal use, then this might be different.
It would be like the head of a company having a Twitter account to espouse company policy and then blocking some employees because he doesn't like them.
I haven't read the decision, but I believe that since the White House had proclaimed that Mr. Trump's 'tweets' were official White House statements, then the argument was that he could not 'block' Americans from viewing his official statements.
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