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Re:Judge Rules Trump Can’t Block People on Twitter by jdoliner on Wednesday May 23, 2018 @02:42PM (#17136835)
Commented above as well:

Case law would disagree. Here's a case where the Supreme court ruled that Facebook banning someone was a violation of their first amendment rights. [0] Salient quote: "Foreclosing access to social media altogether thus prevents users from engaging in the legitimate exercise of First Amendment rights"

Edit: as pointed out, this ruling doesn't actually disagree with what the previous comment said. It does seem similar enough to me to be relevant though so leaving it up. [0] https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/16pdf/15-1194_08l1.pdf

Re:Judge Rules Trump Can’t Block People on Twitter by snerbles on Wednesday May 23, 2018 @02:55PM (#17137021)
Packingham v. North Carolina [0] was about the constitutionality of the state banning users from social media - not on social networks issuing their own bans.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packingham_v._North_Carolina

Re:Judge Rules Trump Can’t Block People on Twitter by jdoliner on Wednesday May 23, 2018 @02:57PM (#17137030)
Yup, corrected above.
Re:Judge Rules Trump Can’t Block People on Twitter by appliestogvmt on Wednesday May 23, 2018 @02:54PM (#17136995)
You posted a link to a case involving a law in North Carolina. Facebook was not party to the case.

Would you please quote (from the link you posted) where it says that Facebook banned said user?

Re:Judge Rules Trump Can’t Block People on Twitter by danhon on Wednesday May 23, 2018 @02:53PM (#17136992)
See above comments. The case doesn’t say what you think it says - it’s government that isn’t allowed to foreclose access, so the underlying cause here is Carolina’s violating legislation.
Re:Judge Rules Trump Can’t Block People on Twitter by buyx on Wednesday May 23, 2018 @02:51PM (#17136965)
That’s a ruling about a state law, not a Facebook policy.