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POTUS' Twitter Account is a public forum?! So many implications!
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July 11, 2019
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17:06Now PlayingThe good news is that this means the President's can't block people using his twitter account.
The question that is now pending is what does this mean for other politicians, on the federal, state, and local levels? What does it mean for other social media services? And if Twitter allows this public forum to exist, do they have to allow the ENTIRE public to interact with it?
If POTUS tweets, this is now a state action and a public forum?!
In Knight First Amendment Institute v. Donald Trump, the second circuit held that the president's twitter account (the account, not twitter as a whole) is a public forum.
Can twitter still ban people or what now? Is that compatible with a public forum, even if run through a private company?
Is this decision even comparable with Manhattan Community Access Corp. v. Halleck ? (I'd say no - my money is on an appeal to SCOTUS, and a quick GVR for the circuit court to reconsider its findings)
The court's decision raises more questions then it answers! Let's struggle with it together and try to figure out what exactly is happening!
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