Judge rules Trump can't block users on Twitter

Who cares tbh

Myspace is still the land of the free and the home of the brave though.

Stupid bitch doesnt understand how twitter works.

if the poster is posting on a trump tweet. POTUS should be free to block a harassing msg. And how are they going to stop Trump from doing this anyway.

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Who cares tbh

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Trump does. Oh, he mad.

I can't wait until i can take my kids to the trump library. The tweets and replies section will be incredible.

Knowing the world we live in, his eventual violation of this ruling is going to be the reason he faces impeachment proceedings.

That's right: a sitting President will be impeached for blocking someone on Twitter against court orders.

We really do deserve each other.

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I'd imagine he could get around it pretty easily by having two accounts, one professional where he just posts pictures signing bills and meeting foreign leaders and another personal one where he can talk shite and block people.

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I would guess that the ruling has to do with the fact that as the President, he is not just acting as an individual but embodies an office. While President engaging on social media, he can't block people but once his Presidency ends he can go back to saying and doing whatever he wants.

Debatable on the point of "governmental control".

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Turning to the merits of plaintiffs’ First Amendment claim, we hold that the speech in which they seek to engage is protected by the First Amendment and that the President and Scavino exert governmental control over certain aspects of the @realDonaldTrump account

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Complete Opinion

This is why many politicians have two accounts/pages, Paul Ryan is one on Facebook that I can say for sure has two. One as Speaker of the House, and one as just plain old Paul.

I'm sure this will be appealed higher and large Social Media companies may step in on behalf of the President because Buchwald ruled that Twitter is a Public Forum where freedom of speech is protected...that's a very very bad road to go down for YouTube, Facebook, and others.

I don't know man, Speaker is pretty high on the totem pole, up there with the VP and CJ of SCOTUS but no matter the station I don't think there would or should be a difference from a legal perspective.

This needs to go to the Supreme Court for a thorough decision. There are a lot of things that need to be explored, like say we're on Facebook and I want to spam racial slurs on the President's page. Can he delete that? Why or why not?

That might be more black and white...but what if I want to constantly accuse a politician of a personal scandal, an affair or a murder or something, of questionable validity...can they delete that?

Can twitter ban people for harassing politicians if their medium is now considered a public forum for political discourse? Does that mean they now have to unban all the White Nationalists?...this case won't define that but whatever the ruling is people like Dennis Prager will surely cite it in their lawsuit against YouTube.

Lots of space here and I think SCOTUS would be wise to clearly define and narrow the scope.