Trump 'BLOCKS' Jimmy Kimmel Live writer on Twitter after she 'hurt his feelings'

[SunSeeker]

32. If you are blocked, people you cannot see your replies to his tweets.

As you note up the thread, there are ways around that, but they require extra steps, creating fake persona accounts, etc. And as I responded to you, this impediment to Twitter users he disagrees with, by forcing them to take extra steps to post or making it harder for others to see their posts, if they find them at all, is a violation of the First Amendment

Trump's Twitter account is like a presidential town hall. That is how he uses it. He tweets on taxpayer's time, announcing what he is doing as President. He is tweeting in his capacity as President, not a private person. Since he voluntarily chose to use that platform for this governmental purpose, then he must conduct himself in accordance with the US Constitution. If he is going to let people reply to his tweets, all people replying must have the same opportunity. People should be able to have equal access to his town hall microphone, i.e. replying to his tweets. I think everyone agrees that constituent speakers at a politician's town hall can not be treated differently simply based on the content of their speech. Why should people replying to Trump's Tweets not have those same protections?

Why should someone be forced to create a second, fake account and/or resort to subterfuge like some sort of troll just to say that which others whose speech Trump agrees with can readily say?

Trump blocking Twitter users makers it appear to other Twitter users looking at the replies to Trump's tweets as if those blocked users are not voicing any objection. That is not like the ignore feature on DU. By blocking people, Trump makes it falsely appear that a smaller percentage of people oppose him than actually do. That subverts our democracy and is one of the reasons we have a First Amendment.

I'm not confusing the right to speak with the right to be heard. I know you can't make anyone listen to you, least of all Shitler. But you do have First Amendment protections against your speech being restricted by a governmental entity, i.e. the President, based solely on the content of your speech. I understand he is not blocking you from using Twitter with the rest of the world, but he is blocking you from his Twitter town hall, while others he agrees with are allowed to directly reply to his tweets.