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Judge to Trump: Muting, not blocking followers, may end suit
AP ^ | 3/8/2018 | LARRY NEUMEISTER

Posted on 03/08/2018 6:15:16 PM PST by mdittmar

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To: mdittmar

No, Trump, like all of us, should have right to say who can be in our feeds. They can post directly so their free speech is not infringed. If the judge rules that Trump (by by extension all of us) cannot block anyone, that is a major rule change on these sites. It is also one step close to these being public utilities, meaning that Twitter, Facebook, etc. will not be able to block people when they don’t like our voices.


21 posted on 03/08/2018 7:08:10 PM PST by Reno89519 (Americans Are Dreamers, Too! No to Amnesty, Yes to Catch-and-Deport, and Yes to E-Verify.)
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To: mdittmar

Does anyone know the judges’ twitter account? I need to block another one.


22 posted on 03/08/2018 7:08:24 PM PST by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the Occupation Media.)
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To: libertylover

Tweet all you want,you will get tweeters;)


23 posted on 03/08/2018 7:23:54 PM PST by mdittmar
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To: mdittmar

What about Twitter itself blocking only conservative speech?


24 posted on 03/08/2018 8:02:29 PM PST by montag813
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To: SubMareener

We lost that a long time ago.


25 posted on 03/08/2018 9:06:29 PM PST by Pining_4_TX (For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. ~ Hosea 8:7)
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To: PA Engineer
She's "of a certain age".

This means that her grandchildren know how to use a computer, but she doesn't.

She has "people" for that.

We had to put up with powerful "computer airheads" like this all the time.

26 posted on 03/08/2018 11:01:00 PM PST by kiryandil (Never pick a fight with an angry beehive)
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To: mdittmar

The f*ckfaces at twatter deliberately suppress people who don’t repeat the official leftist party line, and intentionally promote accounts of those who hate the country, such as muzzies. Yet the f*ckheads want to force Trump to allow anybody who wants to follow him, with the accusation of “unconstitutional”?

Leftists live and die for the double standard.


27 posted on 03/09/2018 3:32:01 AM PST by I want the USA back (There are two sexes: male (pronoun HE), and female (pronoun SHE). Denial of this is insanity.)
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To: silverleaf

I don’t have a twitter account and I can just click a link to read his tweets any time I want. He shouldn’t make any accommodation whatsoever. The crybabies should make the effort.


28 posted on 03/09/2018 4:33:13 AM PST by jiggyboy (Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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To: mdittmar
Fallow asked Buchwald to find that Trump’s Twitter feed is an official government account that operates as a public forum and thus blocking critics violates the First Amendment.

There's a slippery slope in a couple of different ways, which is probably exactly the intention. Who else on twitter "operates as a public forum"? What other venues now magically become a "public forum"?

29 posted on 03/09/2018 4:36:54 AM PST by jiggyboy (Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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“He can avoid hearing them by muting them.”

You mean like, with a cloth?

30 posted on 03/09/2018 4:44:34 AM PST by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: mdittmar

I have to say that I think they’ll side with the crybabies. You can’t say that a specific crybaby’s letter to the President will not be delivered, which is not the same as being delivered but not read, so maybe it’s a matter of convincing the court that writing a tweet to the President is like writing a very brief letter to the President.


31 posted on 03/09/2018 6:16:09 AM PST by jiggyboy (Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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Note to the judge: Trump has no legal requirement to “just mute” any followers on Twitter he does not like.

The controlling legal terms are in the controlling contract/agreement Twitter users agree to. It does not prevent Trump from blocking ANY followers to his account. If that was not the case, Twitter would have been able to tell Trump he couldn’t do it. They didn’t because they couldn’t. They permit “blocking” and do not say who or how many you cannot block.

I would invite the judge to read the terms of service Twitter users agree to. Oh, that’s right, you’d think a judge would have already done so and dismissed the case as without merit.


32 posted on 03/09/2018 6:37:20 AM PST by Wuli (qu)
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To: TigersEye
Is the judge suggesting that no one has a right to use the block feature on this private company’s website

The Judge is suggesting that Trump shut up and take it.

33 posted on 03/09/2018 10:55:19 AM PST by itsahoot (There will be division, as long as there is money to be divided.)
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To: Electric Graffiti

A judge recommended. ROTFLMAO


34 posted on 03/09/2018 10:57:46 AM PST by morphing libertarian (Build Kate's Wall)
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