{"id":136530,"date":"2018-05-23T13:30:33","date_gmt":"2018-05-23T19:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=136530"},"modified":"2018-05-27T00:41:19","modified_gmt":"2018-05-27T06:41:19","slug":"court-rules-trump-cant-block-people-on-twitter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/05\/23\/court-rules-trump-cant-block-people-on-twitter.html","title":{"rendered":"Court rules Trump can&#8217;t block people on Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you are a government official and use Twitter for official business &#8212; like giving orders to the Justice Dept. or announcing international deals &#8212; then you can&#8217;t cut your constituents off from reading what you&#8217;re communicating. Seems pretty straightforward.<\/p>\n<p>If Trump doesn&#8217;t like the comments he gets, he doesn&#8217;t need to read them. That&#8217;s the cost of being an elected representative. Being a pompous snowflake isn&#8217;t an excuse.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p><a style=\"display: inline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/may\/23\/trump-twitter-block-ruling-court-public-forum-account?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Google%2B\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width: 650px;\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/1L5n93WgifQC0u3lJ8ir5nPL0Z-MlyTIu1RA26_1TDeJNeOabdzxucE0_VxKjiNk3XY2OF4RVWEL5wIs-qDCe0zhqPA0w0lTFQxHdVcbG6J2oB5_nKcCFm1vK956mopA2XemHdZQxFm9a6dwCXZXFTBRJl2TQS1yac3ThB6WyHkl5QnM5yiVpJ7xQVGpTmbnSU2gmMFc9A8XmOU4MkTI-si88S4vFcwoRCuYwvqfSWnWONrxWhY0HHUuY4JFg3uQgBFs9B4z7yYQM_4l09kqIo9OcNudTPzAQcEgv4F3g6gqbmZz7msaIHm2GErdUVzu0Ez_HEylFLtnJKQI4IyyuhSqPX3Yr1oigcLTRvgLLUjCn8SqfjGbUzKdslSWVi8rouIRpNfVDpWDFb4aNN_cbZwTDrYQGV-9vJ6MIv_krJ3Ty639uA2eCMKoHT1d0RI=w506-h910\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: large;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2018\/may\/23\/trump-twitter-block-ruling-court-public-forum-account?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Google%2B\">Donald Trump cannot block anyone on Twitter, court rules | US news | The Guardian<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/fc5ufyquJh4\">View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are a government official and use Twitter for official business &#8212; like giving orders to the Justice Dept. or announcing international deals &#8212; then you can&#8217;t cut your constituents off from reading what you&#8217;re communicating. Seems pretty straightforward. If Trump doesn&#8217;t like the comments he gets, he doesn&#8217;t need to read them. That&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/05\/23\/court-rules-trump-cant-block-people-on-twitter.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Court rules Trump can&#8217;t block people on Twitter&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135757,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,3,133,1071],"tags":[1077,1205],"class_list":["post-136530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-blogging","category-censorship","category-trump","tag-trump","tag-twitter"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/unnamed-6.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":133627,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/06\/07\/when-is-a-twitter-account-a-public-government-forum.html","url_meta":{"origin":136530,"position":0},"title":"When is a Twitter Account a public government forum?","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 7-Jun-17 7:05am","format":false,"excerpt":"The suggestion that Trump banning people from his @RealDonaldTrump account on Twitter is a violation of their 1st Amendment right to Free Speech (and perhaps their 14th Amendment right to Equal Treatments under the Law) is, on the face of it, absurd-sounding.On the other hand, if it is actually used\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":133994,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/07\/29\/back-to-the-question-of-trump-blocking-folk-on-twitter.html","url_meta":{"origin":136530,"position":1},"title":"Back to the question of Trump blocking folk on Twitter","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 29-Jul-17 2:28pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Not that the comments on the @RealDonaldTrump Twitter account are anything to be excited about, and it isn't even that he (or his Social Media Minions) block all those who have something detracting to say that might irritate the President.But a federal judge has ruled, in a parallel case, that\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":136116,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/04\/13\/trump-is-his-own-worst-enemy-his-opponents-best-ally.html","url_meta":{"origin":136530,"position":2},"title":"Trump is his own worst enemy, his opponents best ally","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 13-Apr-18 2:44pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Donald Trump continues to do more to both publicize and lend credibility to Comey's memoir than any other imaginable factor. 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