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If the President of the United States blocks you on Twitter, that means he’s violating your First Amendment rights.

Donald Trump has been forced to unblock 41 Twitter users who had apparently irked the President on the social media platform. However, this isn’t a choice Trump willingly made. A federal judge ruled that the tweets posted on the President’s account are public forums and blocking a user violated their Constitutional right to free speech.

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Back in May of this year, a judge ruled on Trump’s Twitter blocking practices after the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University filed a lawsuit on behalf of 7 Twitter users who were blocked by the President. The suit argued that Trump blocked the plaintiffs after they criticized the president, which constituted "viewpoint discrimination.” Being that the President’s Twitter, @RealDonaldTrump, is a public forum, that would be in violation of their First Amendment rights to free speech. U.S. District Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald in Manhattan agreed with the plaintiffs. Read more...

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