A federal judge Buchwald ruled in May that individuals' free speech rights are violated if the President blocks them on Twitter. Of the 41 users who reported being blocked to the Justice Department, 20 of those twitter users were unblocked yesterday.
Sending the First Amendment into deep stormy waters. Not only it sends the Presidents twitter into these waters but every Americans. Can citizens block others to silence their free speech? This does put the " Public " online community policies into question. And not just Twitter. Many more that allow blocking of other users just to silence them.
The judges dissent in short form is as follows. It is not a violation of a persons First Amendments rights of Twitter users to be blocked by the President because they can't read his tweets. But! It is a violation of Constitutional Right by being blocked prevents them from responding to the Presidents tweet. The Constitutional issue is they are being blocked so they can't reply.
Now Judge Buchwald in her decision stated that she would not mandate the Predsient to unblock the Twitter users but by ruling the blocking of users to silence them she hopes the President abides by the ruling and in the end abide by the law.
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