Saw this coming …

  [1]Document: Trump's Blocking of Critics on Twitter is
  Unconstitutional, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New
  York Rules:

    The U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York has
    issued a declaratory judgment holding that President Trump's
    blocking of his critics on Twitter violates the First Amendment. The
    ruling is included in full below.

  [2]2018 05 23 Order on Motions for Summary Judgment (PDF)

  [3]2018 05 23 Order on Motions for Summary Judgment (Text)

  (Via [4]Lawfare - Hard National Security Choices)

  UPDATE: Here's more …

  [5]Federal Court Rules Trump Can't Block People on Twitter:

    A federal court ruled Wednesday that President Donald Trump's wanton
    smashing of the "block" button on Twitter is unconstitutional.

    In July 2017, civil liberties group Knight First Amendment Institute
    at Columbia University [6]sued Trump on behalf of seven people whom
    he'd blocked on Twitter.

    [7]The ruling, made by Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald of the US District
    Court for the Southern District of New York, determines that the
    president's @realDonaldTrump account is a "public forum," and
    therefore his blocking people based on their political speech
    constitutes viewpoint discrimination that violates the First
    Amendment. It also includes an agonizingly thorough description of
    what Twitter is and how it works but manages to leave out the phrase
    "hellscape" entirely.

  (Via [8]Motherboard)
  Also on:

  [9]Twitter
    __________________________________________________________________

  My original entry is here: [10]Document: Trump's Blocking of Critics on
  Twitter is Unconstitutional, U.S. District Court for the Southern
  District of New York Rules. It posted Thu, 24 May 2018 02:45:41 +0000.
  Filed under: personal, tech,

References

  1. https://www.lawfareblog.com/document-trumps-blocking-critics-twitter-unconstitutional-us-district-court-southern-district-new
  2. https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/4482188/2018-05-23-Order-on-Motions-for-Summary-Judgment.pdf
  3. https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/4482188/2018-05-23-Order-on-Motions-for-Summary-Judgment.txt
  4. https://www.lawfareblog.com/recent
  5. https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/9k8a7d/trump-cant-block-people-on-twitter-court-ruling
  6. https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/vbmz4x/trump-has-been-sued-by-people-he-blocked-on-twitter
  7. https://knightcolumbia.org/sites/default/files/content/Cases/Wikimedia/2018.05.23 Order on motions for summary judgment.pdf
  8. https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us
  9. https://twitter.com/TokyoGringo/status/999482475452694528
 10. https://www.prjorgensen.com/?p=1115

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