IMO it’s not about if Twitter is a private space or not it’s about government officials using it as a public space to inform the public. Government officials bl

IMO it’s not about if Twitter is a private space or not it’s about government officials using it as a public space to inform the public. Government officials blocking people clearly does infringe on their first amendment right to be informed even though Twitter isn’t public. The article even points out that if I hold a public press briefing (on private property or not) you can’t stop journalists you don’t like from attending or asking questions. This is the same thing with Twitter; they are fine to have their own rules about blocking people but as soon as government people are using this forum in a public sense their tweets become protected in a way you or me blocking someone doesn’t. To take this even further, if I have a private property and I ban you from it that’s fine, you don’t have a right to be there. But if I’m holding public events on private property you have a right to be able to at least hear what’s being said and maybe even organise a protest against it. At least that’s the way I read the arguments put forward in the article anyway...