U.S. Appeals Court Rules Trump Violated First Amendment By Blocking Twitter Followers A federal appeals court in Manhattan says President Trump cannot block critics from his Twitter account, calling it "unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination."
KNIGHT FIRST AMENDMENT INSTITUTE AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, REBECCA BUCKWALTER, PHILIP COHEN, HOLLY FIGUEROA, EUGENE 12 GU, BRANDON NEELY, JOSEPH PAPP, and NICHOLAS PAPPAS,
Appeals court rules Trump cannot block people from his Twitter account In a unique case dealing with the use of social media by elected officials, a three judge federal appeals panel ruled that President Donald Trump has wrongly blocked people from viewing his posts on Twitter
AOC sued over blocking Twitter users, following appeals court ruling on Trump Former Democratic New York Assemblyman Dov Hikind filed a lawsuit against Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y. in federal court for blocking users on Twitter based on their personal viewpoints
If Trump Doesn't Get to Block People on Twitter, Why... If Trump Doesn't Get to Block People on Twitter, Why Should AOC? A federal appeals court just ruled that President Trump isn't allowed to block people from viewing his Twitter account, because now that he's in public office, his social media is a public forum.
紐約的聯邦第二巡迴上訴法院三名法官一致裁定，因為**川普大統領的推特賬戶屬於公共論壇，他不能把不同意他看法的用戶列入黑名單。從川普大統領在二零一六年執政的早期開始，川普大統領就利用推特做即時制定政策，抨擊批評者，幾乎每一個主題發表意見。法官說：川普他的推特頁面已經成為他總統職務的門面。法官巴林頓·帕克在裁決書中寫道：第一修正案，沒有允許出於各種官方目的，讓使用社交媒體帳戶的公職官員把納稅人列入黑名單。
雖然法官巴林頓·帕克強調這項裁決，不能延伸到所有由公職人員操作的社交媒體賬戶，但是第一修正案的支持者表示，這一決定仍然可以作為對某些政界人士的教訓，這些政界人士在私人社交媒體把批評者列入黑名單，而政府官員的這些帳戶，通常也是他們同公眾的溝通平台。現在至少還有六起針對從美國的縣到美國州長的美國政界人士的訴訟，他們希望在社交媒體上讓那些批評他們的人消聲。 哥倫比亞大學奈特第一修正案研究所，代表七位在二零一七年因發表負面評論，而被封鎖的人提起訴訟。
ＡＣＬＵ的律師班達里他說“社交媒體是新的市政廳， 一旦官方向公眾開放，他們就不能有選擇地排除那些和他們觀點不同的人”。川普大統領在推特擁有六千兩百萬粉絲。他的推文被廣泛傳播，有時甚至傳播幾十萬次，在這個免費的，無拘束的平台上既得到深刻的讚揚，也得到嚴厲的批評。儘管川普的推特頁面具有隨心所欲、率性而為的性質，但他的社交媒體總監丹·斯卡維諾Dan Scavino幫助他運營賬戶，在近幾年封鎖的數十名粉絲造成憤怒。
代表川普的政府律師在法庭上辯稱，不適用，因為川普的推特帳戶是“私人的”，他把推特帳戶專門用作自己表達的工具。
但是原告律師辯稱，川普的帳戶實際上是一個“公共論壇”，川普的管理者封鎖了那七個關注的粉絲，從而侵犯了他們根據第一修正案所擁有的權利。
地區法院在二零一八年五月的裁決和上訴法院最近的裁決，都同意原告的意見。在地區法院裁決後，所有七名原告都被川普的推特帳戶解鎖。此外，奈特第一修正案研究所，要求解除川普推特帳戶對二十名到三十名關注粉絲的封鎖。哥倫比亞大學奈特第一修正案研究所的律師德賽爾說，其中大部分也被解鎖了。
A federal appeals court in Manhattan says President Trump cannot block critics from his Twitter account, calling it "unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination."
For the Second Circuit
August Term 2018
No. 18‐1691‐cv
KNIGHT FIRST AMENDMENT INSTITUTE AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY,
REBECCA BUCKWALTER, PHILIP COHEN, HOLLY FIGUEROA, EUGENE
12 GU, BRANDON NEELY, JOSEPH PAPP, and NICHOLAS PAPPAS,
In a unique case dealing with the use of social media by elected officials, a three judge federal appeals panel ruled that President Donald Trump has wrongly blocked people from viewing his posts on Twitter
Former Democratic New York Assemblyman Dov Hikind filed a lawsuit against Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y. in federal court for blocking users on Twitter based on their personal viewpoints
A federal appeals court just ruled that President Trump isn't allowed to block people from viewing his Twitter account, because now that he's in public office, his social media is a public forum.