Campaign Monitor has suspended President Trump

Re:Campaign Monitor has suspended President Trump by caseysoftware on Saturday January 09, 2021 @01:19AM (#25697912)

And what's interesting is that Trump's Twitter account specifically was declared a "public square" when he was forced to unblock users in 2018. Since that's the case (as ruled), blocking EVERYONE from accessing that account seems like a larger violation.

The suit argued that Trump blocked the plaintiffs after they criticized the president, which constituted "viewpoint discrimination.” Being that the President’s Twitter, @RealDonaldTrump, is a public forum, that would be in violation of their First Amendment rights to free speech. U.S. District Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald in Manhattan agreed with the plaintiffs.

Ref: https://mashable.com/article/trump-unblocks-twitter-accounts...

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Re:Campaign Monitor has suspended President Trump by rswail on Sunday January 10, 2021 @04:43AM (#25712892)

The argument that @realDonaldTrump was viewpoint discrimination is because that twitter account was being used as a defacto mouthpiece of the US government. As such, people engaging with it are entitled to 1A protection.

That doesn't mean that Donald Trump is entitled, either as an individual, or as POTUS, to have a Twitter account.

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