Apparently, Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University lawyers have raised the following argument: “Your Twitter account is a designated public forum for essentially the same reasons that open city council meetings and school board meetings are.” As every social media user knows, when someone is blocked on Twitter, they are disallowed from following, favoriting, quoting, viewing, and retweeting posts. The above mentioned lawyers are arguing that since President Trump is a governmental official using Twitter in an official capacity, he should be prohibited from filtering people who wish to have access to the page.
Katie Fallow, senior attorney at the Knight First Amendment Institute gave the following statement to CNN Tech: “While [the letter] relates to our most prominent Twitter user, the principles we seek to vindicate apply to all public officials and public entities that use social media to conduct government business and allow the public to participate.” This assertion is one of the greatest jokes of all time. Regardless of whether someone is a public figure or an ordinary civilian, they still have the same rights and live under the same Constitution. Nobody is required to endure endless streams of cuberbullying. The President of the United States has every right to utilize the block button that comes along with the use of a Twitter account.
