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He can certainly send private emails, Slack messages, or even Twitter DMs. What he can't do is publicly broadcast his tweets to the world, and then exclude peop

He can certainly send private emails, Slack messages, or even Twitter DMs. What he can't do is publicly broadcast his tweets to the world, and then exclude people from them on political grounds.

spookthesunset 8y ago
> He can certainly send private emails, Slack messages, or even Twitter DMs. Pretty sure he can't and if he is, he better be complying with federal records laws or else he'd be living a double standard. You may recall him blasting another, very popular candidate in the 2016 election for using personal email to conduct official business. Using slack / private email / twitter DM's is basically the same damn thing.
rdtsc 8y ago
> What he can't do is publicly broadcast his tweets to the world, and then exclude people from them on political grounds. What if he blocks them on non-political grounds. Maybe they made fun of his mother, or dog, or threatened to throw dirty socks on his lawn, should be be able to block them then?
- TechieKid 8y ago
  While I realize the article/judge's opinion specifically calls out political speech, I'm fairly sure that applies to all speech, and the political speech subset was probably chosen by the plaintiffs as an easier path to victory.
paulddraper 8y ago
> publicly broadcast his tweets to the world, and then exclude people Are they really public in that case? The President can share information with 1 person, 2 people, 3 people, or 336m people (the number of Twitter users). But he can't share information with 335m people?
- icebraining 8y ago
  It should be noted that the problem identified by the judge was the fact that blocking prevents users from replying to the tweets, therefore restricting their speech. That said, excluding certain people from official communications based on their opinions might be illegal too: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/28/us/politics/white-house-barring-reporters-from-briefings.html https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/28/us/politics/white-house-b...

He can certainly send private emails, Slack messages, or even Twitter DMs. What he can't do is publicly broadcast his tweets to the world, and then exclude people from them on political grounds.

spookthesunset 8y ago

> He can certainly send private emails, Slack messages, or even Twitter DMs. Pretty sure he can't and if he is, he better be complying with federal records laws or else he'd be living a double standard. You may recall him blasting another, very popular candidate in the 2016 election for using personal email to conduct official business. Using slack / private email / twitter DM's is basically the same damn thing.

rdtsc 8y ago

> What he can't do is publicly broadcast his tweets to the world, and then exclude people from them on political grounds. What if he blocks them on non-political grounds. Maybe they made fun of his mother, or dog, or threatened to throw dirty socks on his lawn, should be be able to block them then?

TechieKid 8y ago
While I realize the article/judge's opinion specifically calls out political speech, I'm fairly sure that applies to all speech, and the political speech subset was probably chosen by the plaintiffs as an easier path to victory.

paulddraper 8y ago

> publicly broadcast his tweets to the world, and then exclude people Are they really public in that case? The President can share information with 1 person, 2 people, 3 people, or 336m people (the number of Twitter users). But he can't share information with 335m people?

icebraining 8y ago
It should be noted that the problem identified by the judge was the fact that blocking prevents users from replying to the tweets, therefore restricting their speech. That said, excluding certain people from official communications based on their opinions might be illegal too: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/28/us/politics/white-house-barring-reporters-from-briefings.html https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/28/us/politics/white-house-b...