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Court Rules That Politicians Blocking Followers Violates Free Speech
Master Matthew²:
🤔 What about the followers blocking politicians?
ultimamax:
--- Quote from: Red Spy on July 29, 2017, 09:04:53 PM ---when was the last time his twitter actually announced something important and wasn't a massive stuffpost
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Uhh literally just days ago he announced that transgender people would be banned from the military on Twitter. He did this before even consulting his generals. I would argue it would be important for a trans person in the military to see that tweet even if the policy hasn't gone through yet so they can prepare for their discharge.
Red Spy:
--- Quote from: ultimamax on July 29, 2017, 09:39:11 PM ---Uhh literally just days ago he announced that transgender people would be banned from the military on Twitter. He did this before even consulting his generals. I would argue it would be important for a trans person in the military to see that tweet even if the policy hasn't gone through yet so they can prepare for their discharge.
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and that was just a loving raging success of a tweet wasn't it?
ultimamax:
--- Quote from: Red Spy on July 29, 2017, 09:40:26 PM ---and that was just a loving raging success of a tweet wasn't it?
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What? It doesn't matter if the tweet made people mad, he announced a major change in military policy on Twitter and only Twitter.
otto-san:
the ruling here was specifically because the account was being used 'in a public capacity' to provide a platform for constituents to communicate with an elected official. in that context, it's essentially like banning someone from a virtual town hall meeting because they critiqued your policy decisions, and that seems to me like a pretty straightforward first amendment violation. if it were a totally personal account and someone just went off on their politics on a totally unrelated post about eating oreos for desert then it'd be a different story
i'd say @POTUS qualifies as being used in a public capacity here since it's commonly being used as a stage to announce policy intent and direction for an elected official