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The court has ruled that individuals have a First Amendment right to use Twitter to interact with representatives of the federal government. But you can't use T
by clinta 7y ago
The court has ruled that individuals have a First Amendment right to use Twitter to interact with representatives of the federal government. But you can't use Twitter to interact with those representatives if Twitter has banned you.
- dragonwriter 7y ago> The court has ruled that individuals have a First Amendment right to use Twitter to interact with representatives of the federal government. No, it hasn't, except insofar as such a right is protected against a specific form of government action. It has ruled, more accurately, that individuals have the right to not have the government officials exclude them from full participation in particular corners of Twitter used for official government purposes.
- SkyBelow 7y agoThe government official, by choosing to use twitter, has chosen a platform that has people excluded. Perhaps the technical flaw is on the politician for choosing a platform that has already excluded people, but the end result is that from the private public partnership people are being excluded.
- dragonwriter 7y ago> but the end result is that from the private public partnership people are being excluded. Sure, but that end result isn't what the courts have found is prohibited, they have found that government officials excluding people on certain bases is prohibited.
- Goronmon 7y agoIt's not that individuals have a First Amendment right to use Twitter to interact with representatives of the federal government, it's that representatives of the federal government can't control who interacts with them on Twitter in an official capacity.
- clinta 7y agoSo if Twitter's moderators were supporters of the President and they voluntarily blocked all of his critics, that would be legal?