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Re:Judge Rules Trump Can’t Block People on Twitter by rdtsc on Wednesday May 23, 2018 @04:04PM (#17137698)
> 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?

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Re:Judge Rules Trump Can’t Block People on Twitter by TechieKid on Wednesday May 23, 2018 @04:21PM (#17137849)
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.
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