White House Twitter letter final from June 6, 2017

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https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/3859469-White-House-Twitter-Letter-FINAL.html

Some text here, read the full letter at above link.

""June 6, 2017

President Donald J. Trump
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20500

Dear President Trump,
Your vigorous use of Twitter to comment about matters mundane as
well as momentous has afforded Americans valuable insight into your
policies, actions, and beliefs. It has also supplied the public with a means of
engaging you directly. Your Twitter accounts are forums in which you
share your thoughts and decisions as President, and in which millions of
people respond, ask questions, and sometimes have those questions
answered.
We write on behalf of individuals who have been blocked from your
most-followed Twitter account, @realDonaldTrump, because they
disagreed with, criticized, or mocked you or your actions as President.

This Twitter account operates as a “designated public forum” for First
Amendment purposes, and accordingly the viewpoint-based blocking of
our clients is unconstitutional. We ask that you unblock them and any
others who have been blocked for similar reasons.1
The individuals we represent include:
•

Holly O’Reilly, @AynRandPaulRyan, who was blocked on May
28, 2017 after she posted a GIF, captioned “This is pretty much
how the whole world sees you,” in which Pope Francis appears
incredulous and uncomfortable during a meeting with you.2

1 We focus in this letter on @realDonaldTrump, but the arguments we make
here apply with equal force to your other account, @POTUS, to the extent that
you or your aides have blocked users from that account because of their views.
2 Holly O’Reilly (@AynRandPaulRyan), Twitter (May 28, 2017, 7:53 AM),

Link to tweet

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***letter continues 4 pages at above cloud doc link.****

by, Knight First Amendment Institute Columbia University https://knightcolumbia.org/

535 West 116th Street, 314 Low Library, New York, NY 10027 [phone] knightcolumbia.org