Following Trump Ruling Against Twitter Blockade, AOC Sued For Her Blocks On Twitter

Following Trump Ruling Against Twitter Blockade, AOC Sued For Her Blocks On Twitter

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https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20190710/22503542560/following-trump-ruling-against-twitter-blockade-aoc-sued-her-blocks-twitter.shtml

So we just wrote about the 2nd Circuit Appeals court affirming a victory for the Knight 1st Amendment Center against Donald Trump, making it clear that he cannot block followers on social media. As we noted, the case is very fact specific, and people shouldn't read too much into it. But, in general, it does find that if someone is a public official, using social media for official government purposes, and creating an open public forum out of that, they cannot block followers based on the views of those followers -- as that is the state engaging in impermissible viewpoint discrimination.

Some Trump supporters then spun that around on the other side of the aisle, picking out the fact that freshman Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has blocked people on Twitter as well. Indeed, as Scott Greenfield points out, in the wake of the 2nd Circuit ruling, former NY State Assemblyman Dov Hikind has already sued Ocasio-Cortez, pointing out that she has him blocked on Twitter.

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