Re:Trump unblocks more Twitter users after U.S. court ruling
by xienze on Wednesday August 29, 2018 @06:58PM
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>What it does do is prevent the user from easily engaging with the president
They can’t just make another account with which to tell Trump “you suck”? Ah but how will everyone else know _I_ tweeted something at Trump if _my_ handle isn’t attached to it? That’s what these people are mad about. Not that they can’t reply to Trump (they can), but that other people won’t know about that sick burn they once made that was drowned out by 30000 others.
Re:Trump unblocks more Twitter users after U.S. court ruling
by toast0 on Wednesday August 29, 2018 @07:14PM
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Does Twitter permit multiple accounts for a single legal person in their terms of service? Do they permit creating additional accounts for the purpose of communicating with someone who blocked you on your other account?
Petitioning the government, regardless of how effective a petition it is, shouldn't require violating a contract.
Trump by blocking users doesn't prevent the users from seeing the content (i.e. they can log out and see the content). What it does do is prevent the user from easily engaging with the president (i.e. why its a free speech issue). It's basically saying that users A, B, and C can easily engage, but by blocking D, we are going to put a road block that makes it difficult for D.
In the case of Musk, if one is claiming that blocking is discriminating who can see the content, one can make the claim that this really isn't true, all blocking does is make it more difficult to interface with musk, not to see the content.