Elected official blocking social media users violate the 1st amendment

Likely going to all the way to the Supreme Court. Agree with the Court opinion.



"We do not consider or decide whether an elected official violates the Constitution by excluding persons from a wholly private social media account. Nor do we consider or decide whether private social media companies are bound by the First Amendment when policing their platforms. We do conclude, however, that the First Amendment does not permit a public official who utilizes a social media account for all manner of official purposes to exclude persons from an otherwise‐open online dialogue because they expressed views with which the official disagrees."

 

This doesn’t stop him from tweeting so that will continue. And while I agree that it isn’t necessary, it not necessary a bad thing to talk directly to the public bypassing the middle man. Bad or good isn’t the path of communication but how the person uses it and what is communicated.

 

It’s not his own twitter account.

It belong to a private company. As he is using it for official work, it’s belong to the public domain as well.

 

They pretty much own and can do whatever they deem necessary with it. Read Twitter EULA. Read others social media EULA.

Even if they don’t, as soon as you use it for government official work, it’s no longer your own private data.

 

Read the EULA. It’s your content and they can do pretty much whatever ever they want with it. It’s effectively their. Copyright protection is a separate topic.

Here: https://twitter.com/en/tos

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