koshergrl
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Bullshit. The president has NO OBLIGATION TO LISTEN TO THE HECKLERS.You have a right to "speak." Nobody is obligated to listen.He can mute them..in fact, the judge recommended just that..but he cannot block them..because he is the President..our leader...and we have the right to access his official record. He has claimed that it is..and now he's stuck with the consequences.Trump can't block users from his Twitter feed, federal judge rules
free speech..it's a thing:
"President Donald Trump cannot block Twitter users for the political views they have expressed, a federal judge in Manhattan ruled on Wednesday.
Blocking users from viewing his Twitter account — a feature offered by the social media platform — is unconstitutional and a violation of the First Amendment, Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald wrote in her ruling.
"While we must recognize, and are sensitive to, the President’s personal First Amendment rights, he cannot exercise those rights in a way that infringes the corresponding First Amendment rights of those who have criticized him," Buchwald wrote.
The government had argued that blocked individuals could still access the president’s tweets. The judge agreed but said that even considering the president's First Amendment rights, preventing users from interacting directly with him on Twitter represented a violation of a "real, albeit narrow, slice of speech.""
Hmmmm...twitter can censor...and everybody else can block whomever they please for any reason..
But the President of the US must be prevented from blocking the trolls and stalkers that insult and attack him on twitter.
That is exactly correct.
Which is why Trump can mute people on Twitter - which will prevent him from seeing those tweets - but can't block people, because that prevents them from "speaking" at all.
The reason you put *speaking* in quotes is because you know that blocking trolls and spies and criminals on twitter is not preventing anybody from *speaking*.