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Exactly right, and the article very clearly lays out this difference. A TV channel is more like the library’s official announcement board discussed in TFA. Ther
by URSpider94 9y ago
Exactly right, and the article very clearly lays out this difference. A TV channel is more like the library’s official announcement board discussed in TFA. There is no expectation of, or right to, speech for anyone but the speaker, and that’s fine.
However, Twitter is a forum where everyone has a voice, and the President is using tools available on the platform to decide who gets to participate in the discussion by reading and responding to his tweets. It would be like saying, “fans of the library can post on the open message board in the lobby. Haters, you can use the message board down by the bathrooms.”
Point is, the EFF’s argument is that either everyone gets a say, or not — you can’t curate speech in a public forum based upon content, if you are a public official. And, make no mistake, Trump is the one hitting that “Block” button.
- coding123 9y agoYes, there is no expectation on TV that there will be live replies from anonymous people. And just like that expectation, there is the expectation that people can block other people and that is working exactly as it works for any other twitter user.