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President Trump sued for blocking people on Twitter - 7/12/2017 2:15:59 PM   
WickedsDesire


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President Donald Trump has been party to an eye-watering 4,000 lawsuits over the last 30 years, US media say.

And now the mogul turned commander-in-chief has attracted one more, after seven people sued him for blocking them on Twitter.

Mr Trump is an avid user of the social media forum, which he deploys to praise allies and lambast critics.

The lawsuit was filed by the Knight First Amendment Institute, a free speech group at Columbia University.

The seven Twitter users involved claim their accounts were blocked by the president, or his aides, after they replied to his tweets with mocking or critical comments.

People on Twitter are unable to see or respond to tweets from accounts that block them.
The legal complaint argues that by blocking these individuals, Mr Trump has barred them from joining the online conversation.

It calls the move an attempt to "suppress dissent" in a public forum - and a violation of their First Amendment right to free speech.


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RE: President Trump sued for blocking people on Twitter - 7/12/2017 2:20:01 PM   
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It calls the move an attempt to "suppress dissent" in a public forum - and a violation of their First Amendment right to free speech.

Butthurt nonsense.

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RE: President Trump sued for blocking people on Twitter - 7/12/2017 2:24:18 PM   
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Status: offline 		Actually not. I saw some interesting pieces on this a while back.

Since it's presidential publication, there are guidelines about disseminating it. You can't publish, as president, to only some of the people.

Not that I give a rat's ass -- just an interesting tangle as Constitution meets modern world meets bumbling idiot.

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RE: President Trump sued for blocking people on Twitter - 7/12/2017 2:28:57 PM   
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It calls the move an attempt to "suppress dissent" in a public forum - and a violation of their First Amendment right to free speech.

Butthurt nonsense.

Absolutely. Especially for those who can only intellectually handle one-way conversations. Twitter is to be reserved for the POTUS only.

How dare anybody have the temerity of suggesting otherwise.

Shouldn't everybody be able to block their dissenters ?

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RE: President Trump sued for blocking people on Twitter - 7/12/2017 2:37:33 PM   
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Status: offline 		The putinjizz felchgobbling nutsucker commies are trying to block American's freedom of speech!!!!!

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RE: President Trump sued for blocking people on Twitter - 7/12/2017 2:39:44 PM   
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Actually not. I saw some interesting pieces on this a while back.

Just curious, got some links to share? I'd like to see this for myself.

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RE: President Trump sued for blocking people on Twitter - 7/12/2017 2:59:22 PM   
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RE: President Trump sued for blocking people on Twitter - 7/12/2017 3:04:33 PM   
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I honestly don't remember -- it was a few months back. But you could Google it, I'm sure.

I already gave it a quick look but didn't really see anything except the joke pages about his tweets. But it occurs to me that if the President can sit in a press conference and ignore some of the reporters he can easily justify blocking tweeters.

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RE: President Trump sued for blocking people on Twitter - 7/12/2017 3:04:40 PM   
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Not that you ever make sense to me crybaby on account you have no fuking brain.

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RE: President Trump sued for blocking people on Twitter - 7/12/2017 3:12:31 PM   
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ORIGINAL: RottenJohnny

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Actually not. I saw some interesting pieces on this a while back.

Just curious, got some links to share? I'd like to see this for myself.

I went to yahoo and typed "Trump sued twitter"
DAMN, I only got 406 MILLION results.

Are you too fucking stupid to do that?
here's #1. http://money.cnn.com/2017/07/11/technology/trump-twitter-user-lawsuit/index.html
the other 405,999,999 are up to you

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RE: President Trump sued for blocking people on Twitter - 7/12/2017 3:16:12 PM   
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But it occurs to me that if the President can sit in a press conference and ignore some of the reporters he can easily justify blocking tweeters.

He was duly elected by the Electoral College to represent ALL Americans, not just the ignorant Trumapanzees.,

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RE: President Trump sued for blocking people on Twitter - 7/12/2017 3:16:52 PM   
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Status: offline 		Twitter is not an official government arm. When Trump uses it he is effectively just another celebrity tweeting away. ALL Twitter users have the option of blocking others they don't care to hear from. Basically this is just another nuisance attack on Trump. Since these people have literally thousands of other options to express their views/thoughts, their 1st Amendment rights to free speech are not being stifled. The 1st Amendment does not guarantee that you can express yourself in any and/or every venue you desire, just that you should be able to express yourself publicly. They still have that ability.

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RE: President Trump sued for blocking people on Twitter - 7/12/2017 3:19:18 PM   
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What is butt hurt my fragile burnt out ring piece? Do you have the orange ones gangrenous enfeebled half incher ploughed deep within your eye socket, filling your empty cranial cavity with a fetid flaccid foul foam. Does it tell you to do and say mad shit?

Not that you ever make sense to me crybaby on account you have no fuking brain.

Fuck off, retard.

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RE: President Trump sued for blocking people on Twitter - 7/12/2017 3:26:44 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Hillwilliam
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ORIGINAL: RottenJohnny
quote:

ORIGINAL: Musicmystery
Actually not. I saw some interesting pieces on this a while back.

Just curious, got some links to share? I'd like to see this for myself.

I went to yahoo and typed "Trump sued twitter"
DAMN, I only got 406 MILLION results.

Are you too fucking stupid to do that?
here's #1. http://money.cnn.com/2017/07/11/technology/trump-twitter-user-lawsuit/index.html
the other 405,999,999 are up to you

Maybe I was hoping to read the same articles he was referring to. Did you ever think of that, assclown?

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RE: President Trump sued for blocking people on Twitter - 7/12/2017 3:32:53 PM   
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Twitter is not an official government arm. When Trump uses it he is effectively just another celebrity tweeting away.

But it is an official government account, one that is used specifically to disseminate info, and citizens are being blocked from it. It is subject to government communication policies, which is why there has also been pushback and talk of lawsuits whenever something is deleted. Trumps own press secretary has suggested that Trump's tweets should be taken as official policy statements.

Personally, I could care less. I don't follow his Twitter. But it is censoring speech on an official government channel of communication.

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RE: President Trump sued for blocking people on Twitter - 7/12/2017 3:34:44 PM   
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Status: offline 		areshole - everyone of his mad twitter jobbies are considered shittery jobbie tender.

Now fuk off lying idiot - I suggest in the direction of the one with the jobbie shitter account

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RE: President Trump sued for blocking people on Twitter - 7/12/2017 3:49:42 PM   
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By all means take your time fuking twat.
Let the Orange Virulent Gonorrhoea overwhelm you
We are not savages on here so would you like a stick to bite down on before we commence this marvellous debate further bunt out arse ring piece

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RE: President Trump sued for blocking people on Twitter - 7/12/2017 3:49:46 PM   
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I honestly don't remember -- it was a few months back. But you could Google it, I'm sure.

I already gave it a quick look but didn't really see anything except the joke pages about his tweets. But it occurs to me that if the President can sit in a press conference and ignore some of the reporters he can easily justify blocking tweeters.

OK, I took a look ... it's along the lines of this one:

https://gcn.com/articles/2017/02/01/twitter-presidential-records.aspx

The issue at the time was deleting tweets, which are now presidential records.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/trump-deleted-tweets-violate-presidential-records-act-article-1.2952416

Even beyond cybersecurity, [Trump's] ad-hoc approach suggests the Trump White House has not fully adjusted to the complexities of life in the federal government.

When Trump deleted a tweet, he likely violated the President Records Act, a 1978 law that requires all presidential writings be preserved. Congress recently amended it to include electronic records.

“If he uses his Twitter account for official presidential business, it should be subject to the Presidential Records Act,” Caroline Mala Corbin, a constitutional law professor at the University Miami, said.

Congress passed the law “after the Watergate scandal and President Nixon’s attempt to hide his records,” she said, to establish that all presidential records “must be preserved.”

http://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/twitter-presidency-experts-see-both-risks-rewards-trump-n712771

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RE: President Trump sued for blocking people on Twitter - 7/12/2017 3:52:26 PM   
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Obama's Secretary of State hid official classified government emails on an illegal private server in a bathroom though... Not an issue

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RE: President Trump sued for blocking people on Twitter - 7/12/2017 3:53:13 PM   
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