Originally posted by Robtard
-Trump has used both the POTUS Twitter and his personal Twitter to conduct POTUS business.
That's irrelevant. It really doesn't matter at all and I've covered why. No wonder people argue with you pages and pages and get no where.
Trump should be able to block people from his private twitter account because it doesn't stop them from viewing the tweets at all.
He has an official presidential twitter account so even if you support illegally controlling Trump, you should logically conclude that it applies to his official president twitter stuff and not his private handle regardless of what he does with either.
Also, is Trump conducting business? Is he really?
Originally posted by dadudemon
That's irrelevant. It really doesn't matter at all and I've covered why. No wonder people argue with you pages and pages and get no where.Trump should be able to block people from his private twitter account because it doesn't stop them from viewing the tweets at all.
He has an official presidential twitter account so even if you support illegally controlling Trump, you should logically conclude that it applies to his official president twitter stuff and not his private handle regardless of what he does with either.
Also, is Trump conducting business? Is he really?
No, it's not irrelevant and you initially used this as a point to support your argument until I showed that Trump has indeed used his personal Twitter for POTUS related Tweeting.
Here is your quote:
Originally posted by dadudemon
Guess what? Still no official business being conducted on it. 🙂
Here is the quote and link showing he indeed has:
Originally posted by Robtard
Well no.Well you're wrong there: First Trump administration tweets come from @realDonaldTrump
Trump has used both the POTUS Twitter and his personal Twitter to conduct POTUS business.
I really don't see the argument here. If, as the judge ruled, Twitter constitutes as a "designated public forum" then Trump should not be allowed to block people nor should Twitter be allowed to moderate speech on their platform as they currently do. It's really quite simple. Of course, the reverse is also true.
Indeed, because he is the POTUS and that's an aspect of the job, you preemptively dismissing it because it doesn't get with your views won't change that.
Here's the Act:
Originally posted by Robtard
Probably this: Presidential Records Actthe PRA changed the legal ownership of the official records of the President from private to public, and established a new statutory structure under which Presidents must manage their records. -snip
edit: Link should work now
Anyone who wishes to be POTUS realizes that they lose certain privacies.
Originally posted by Robtard
Indeed, because he is the POTUS and that's an aspect of the job, you preemptively dismissing it because it doesn't get with your views won't change that.Here's the Act:
Anyone who wishes to be POTUS realizes that they lose certain privacies.
Fair. I did not realize their was an act specifying that. Though I wouldn't consider Tweets "official records". Regardless, as has been pointed out, Trump blocking people does not prevent people from accessing his tweets.
Originally posted by Flyattractor
[b]Its called HYPOCRISY! The Left does that All The Time.This is why I would LOVE Conservative in Congress to treat these WebFascists like the Nazis they are.
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Aren't you anti-Net neutrality? Stones and glass houses and all that.
Originally posted by ares834
Fair. I did not realize their was an act specifying that. Though I wouldn't consider Tweets "official records". Regardless, as has been pointed out, Trump blocking people does not prevent people from accessing his tweets.
But it can stop a given citizen from having an equal platform to the President.
Yes and no. While the specific act may not directly pertain to Twitter, reprecussions from the act would. If Trump's twitter is consdiered a "designated public forum (which the ruling states) then Twitter is not allowed the right to discriminate based on viewpoint on said forum. Hypothetically, twitter could ban people from the rest of twitter aside from the POTUS's account. But they aren't. They are banning them from everything including Trump's twitter which is illegal.
Of course, this all relies on Trumps twitter being considered a "public forum" which I find to be a ridiculous concept.
Again, no. Twitter is not bound by the same rules as the office of the POTUS and the Presidential Records Act.
They're a private company and a private company can give and refuse service to anyone for any reason. This was pushed hard and further cemented when the homophobic baker in Colorado won his case.