Wednesday, August 29, 2018

Trump Forced To Unblock Twitter Critics.


Trump ― or whoever manages his Twitter account ― spent part of Tuesday evening unblocking users. [I think Trump is too stupid to manage the "settings."]



Since taking office, the Trump cabal has blocked a very large number of people for criticizing him or even just cracking jokes at his expense.



However, in May, a federal judge said Trump’s blocks were unconstitutional as his Twitter feed was a public forum which “has been used in the course of the appointment of officers (including cabinet secretaries), the removal of officers and conducting foreign policy.”



U.S. District Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald ordered Trump and White House social media director Dan Scavino to unblock the users. So the seven plaintiffs in the lawsuit filed by the Knight First Amendment Institute were unblocked, but not the others that had previously been blocked. [there could not be more than just a few hundred thousand]



Knight asked the White House to unblock an additional 41 accounts. On Tuesday night that happened ― for some of them.



Comedy writer Bess Kalb took a moment to savor the victory and then, newly unblocked by Trump, she turned around and blocked him.



Jules Suzdaltsev who was blocked in May 2017 hit Trump with a block of his own.



Not everyone has been unblocked. It’s not clear if Teigen and King were among the unblocked. Last year, Teigen said she was blocked after writing “lol no one likes you.” King described the moment he was blocked to “Late Show” host Stephen Colbert earlier this year.



“I might’ve said he had his head somewhere where a certain yoga position would be necessary to get it there,” King said. “And that was it, man.”





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