Judge Rules Trump Can’t Block People on Twitter

Re:Judge Rules Trump Can’t Block People on Twitter by paulddraper on Wednesday May 23, 2018 @05:42PM (#17138610)

> 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?

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Re:Judge Rules Trump Can’t Block People on Twitter by icebraining on Thursday May 24, 2018 @02:09AM (#17141473)

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-b...

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