President Trump Can't Block Twitter Users, Federal Appeals Court Rules
Practice of blocking users violates free-speech protections, judges say
https://www.wsj.com/articles/president-trump-cant-block-twitter-users-federal-appeals-court-rules-11562685206
By Corinne Ramey
Updated July 9, 2019 4:03 pm ET
A federal appeals court in New York ruled President Trump’s practice of blocking some users on Twitter violates the free-speech protections of the First Amendment.
Tuesday’s ruling stems from a 2017 lawsuit filed by Columbia University’s Knight First Amendment Institute on behalf of seven people who had been blocked by the president’s @realDonaldTrump account.
In an opinion for the three-judge panel, Judge Barrington D. Parker of the Second U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals wrote that a public official who uses a social-media account for official purposes can’t block users because he disagrees with their posts
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Please proceed
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… he breaks the law all the time. Twitter and Facebook will have to unblock - I doubt he will...
