TL;DR 5 Sentence Summary - Twitter Users Blocked by Trump File LawsuitsteemCreated with Sketch.

in trump •  7 years ago 

A group of Twitter users blocked by President Trump sued him and two top White House aides on Tuesday, arguing that his account amounts to a public forum that he, as a government official, cannot bar people from.

They included arguments that Mr. Trump was imposing an unconstitutional restriction on the plaintiffs' ability to participate in a designated public forum, get access to statements the government had otherwise made available to the public and petition the government for "Redress of grievances." Filed in Federal District Court for the Southern District of New York, the lawsuit also names Sean Spicer, the White House press secretary, and Dan Scavino, Mr. Trump's director of social media, as defendants.

The Knight First Amendment Institute, directed by Jameel Jaffer, also joined the lawsuit as a plaintiff although its Twitter account had not been blocked by Mr. Trump.

The skeptics argued, among other things, that Mr. Trump's account was personal, not official; that he had the same right to block people he considered trolls as anyone else; and that the injury to blocked people was minor since they could still view his postings as long as they did not log in to Twitter under their own accounts.

The Knight First Amendment Institute sought to address and rebut such critiques in a lengthy blog posting later last month, and its complaint noted that since its letter, the Trump White House has taken several steps suggesting that the administration considers his Twitter account to be an official channel.

Source: NYTimes

The President of the United States, who uses Twitter way too much, is being sued by citizens of the country he's running for blocking them. Does it get any more twilight-zone or Idiocracy-like than this?

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Ha, the only people blocked are people who were abusive and using the Twitter replies to grandstand in front of their peers. If conservatives can be banned from the entire platform for having conservative views (wrong think) then the platform itself is clearly not neutral or all inclusive and there is no onus on the users, in this case the president, to act like it is.

I'm not sure what is more crazy, suing the President for blocking you, or being a President with so much free time on your hands that you care enough to have the need to block trolls.

He's not a robot. He travels a lot lately, sits down to eat. He probably has an assistant that helps him with social media sometimes. There is so much in-between free time to do whatever you want as president and still get tons of work done. The past administrations look lazy in comparison if you look at their schedules compared to Trumps so far.

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