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> Yeah, and now you can't respond to anything he says. You've had your voice taken away. Not really. I mean, what did we do before Twitter came along?
by xienze 8y ago
> Yeah, and now you can't respond to anything he says. You've had your voice taken away.
Not really. I mean, what did we do before Twitter came along?
- daveguy 8y agoBefore Twitter came along the president didn't have the legal ability to prevent you from criticizing him in any other venue either.
- zaroth 8y agoTrump removed plenty of hecklers from his campaign events.
- daveguy 8y agoGood point. If critical tweets kept him from giving his message then I expect the judge would have ruled differently.
- enraged_camel 8y agoHe had not been elected yet. The moment he did, things changed.
- zaroth 8y agoCertainly he continues to remove hecklers from his campaign events. The distinction is a campaign event isn’t a “public forum”.
- dragonwriter 8y agoCampaign events are generally not public forums, even if the candidate happens to also be an incumbent public official. For a federal official (and similar laws exist for state government), if the nexus with official government affairs required to make a public forum existed with a campaign event, that’d probably violate the Hatch Act separately from whether any violation of public forum law occurred.