When the lawsuit was first filed, I read comments from people who were banned.
There was no noble mission. They openly stated it was about harassing Trump.
This article is standard NYT spin and revisionism.
Libtards can go fly a kite.
The First Amendment says you have a right to free speech.
You do not have a right to be heard.
Ignore the judge. He’s a partisan hack.
It seems to me that the judge just created lawful grounds to sue Twitter for violating people’s Constitutional rights when Twitter censors conservative speech. We’ll see has this plays out.
Most of the people who reply on the President’s Twitter feed post the vilest, filthiest, most abusive comments imaginable.
If these comments were by conservatives directed toward Obama, they would have been banned from Twitter long ago, not just blocked.
Since this is about Trump, they are held up as free speech warriors.
Disgusting.
It matters not what the “law” says or its intended purpose, crooks in blackrobes can change tit to fit their political needs while lining their pockets with law manipulation money.
I believe that there is a twitter account @POTUS created by Obama. All President Trump would have to do is declare the @POTUS account to be the official (government) account and that @realdonaldtrump is his private account.
Done
The march of liberal fascism.
I think their biggest complaint is they cannot post responses below his tweets or retweet with comments.
Everyday you can read Trump tweets elsewhere without following.
This is like saying that because President Trump uses a government phone, he has to take everyone’s calls.
If Trump gives a speech in the Rose Garden(a govt facility), do hecklers have a right to free speech?
This is far from over. The judge is wrong and clearly overreaching the bench’s authority. The smackdown that is coming is going to be awesome!
Twitter is neither instituted nor endorsed by the Federal Government and thus its usage cannot be construed as such. The judge is wrong and the decision should be overturned. On a side note, enforcement is impossible making the ruling nothing more than biased political grandstanding.
Maybe Trump should block all comments and use Twitter as only a medium for his statements.
Someone could create another twitter account called, say, RepliesToTrump where people could reply. Trump couldn’t shut that down so that should make the banned people happy.
I thought I read that Obama blocked repliers from his Twitter account.
The proverbial "$1 judgement win."
There’s no constitutional requirement for nobility in free speech. When gov or officials open a medium for public communication the public can respond.
So blocking twitter or other social media would be like blocking people from speaking at town halls.
Town halls and the like are allowed parliamentary procedure whereby people go to the podium and speak for 2 mins or what not, but the nature of social media has no such procedure other than the responses themselves.
What would be really interesting is if someone posted illegal porn. That would certainly get taken down, but laws making that stuff illegal are statutory, not at the level of the constitution. Taken to court, there would be a legal conundrum.
The plaintiffs were actually surreptitiously arguing that they had a First Amendment right to violate Twitter policy on "targeted harassment" without consequence on the platform.
See Daxton Brown's post on getting suspended by Twitter four times.
I myself have lost a Twitter account for political speech.
I've seen Trump tweets where these screamers get on and vomit multiple abusive tweets targeting Trump, Republicans and conservatives.
It's clearly suspendable behavior - yet Twitter does nothing, "because Lefty".
Bless their hearts.
Gee, New York Times, when are you going to interview all of the FReepers who are torked-off about being blocked by Facebook?
But yet “conservatives” are banned. This is utter nonsense. Block all you want. Take it to the Supremes.