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Trump unblocks more Twitter users after U.S. court ruling

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Re: Trump unblocks more Twitter users after U.S. court ruling

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Post by URSpider94 »

allthenews wrote: post #77

I don't know what is more absurd: that the president uses a private medium like twitter as a seemingly primary channel to communicate with the nation, or that a private entity is being forced to operate as a public, regulated forum.

The second one isnt happening. Nothing in this ruling puts any burden on Twitter whatsoever. It puts a burden on Trump as to how he uses it. Trump gets to pick which forum he wants to use to make public statements, but he needs to pick fora that comply with government regulations and then use them in a compliant manner.

Re: Trump unblocks more Twitter users after U.S. court ruling

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Post by craftyguy »

jamesrom wrote: post #76
craftyguy wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

El Presidente should not have the power to exclude certain citizens from their communications.

You must not have read the post you are replying too.

Yea, I read it. It was a workaround for something that shouldn't happen in the first place. I assume you read it too?

Re: Trump unblocks more Twitter users after U.S. court ruling

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Post by erikpukinskis »

jonknee wrote: post #34
jrockway wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm not sure I agree. I assume that the SEC is fine if you take out an ad in the New York Times to announce your news, but that requires that people know to read the ads there, that they can afford a copy of the newspaper, etc. There is no such thing as a method of notifying everyone simultaneously. Posting to a public Twitter account is as good as anything else.

Well the times allows anyone to buy it, it doesn't specifically block certain people from reading. This isn't a big issue, every other CEO other than Elon Musk has no problem controlling his/her tweets to not contain market moving news. They should make an example out of him and we'll go back to having everyone disclose news in the proper channels. If the SEC does not come down on him it will be the wild west and inv…

Blocking on Twitter isn’t really blocking someone from seeing the tweet. They can just log out and see the tweet.

Actually does it even prevent someone from seeing it in the first place, or does it just hide the blocked person from the blocker?

Re: Trump unblocks more Twitter users after U.S. court ruling

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Post by dexen »

allthenews wrote: post #77

I don't know what is more absurd: that the president uses a private medium like twitter as a seemingly primary channel to communicate with the nation, or that a private entity is being forced to operate as a public, regulated forum.

>that the president uses a private medium like twitter as a seemingly primary channel to communicate with the nation

This has happened several times in the history, as new technologies became common. Newspapers, radio, (live) TV, social media. Each expansion into the new communication channel caused major change in campaigning style, and (re-)connected the candidates with the common citizen, as the new medium owners had relatively small influence on popular opinion by themselves [1]. Also each time the political old guard was caught by surprise, still focusing on the medium of yesteryear, very much like the 2016 presidential elections.

It's worth noting Obama was a social media savvy candidate and to large extent his campaign pre-saged what went down in the 2016 elections.

[1] IMO all the Twitters and Facebooks owners still have relatively less sway than the TV and older media.

Re: Trump unblocks more Twitter users after U.S. court ruling

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Post by mercer »

erikpukinskis wrote: post #83
jonknee wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well the times allows anyone to buy it, it doesn't specifically block certain people from reading. This isn't a big issue, every other CEO other than Elon Musk has no problem controlling his/her tweets to not contain market moving news. They should make an example out of him and we'll go back to having everyone disclose news in the proper channels. If the SEC does not come down on him it will be the wild west and inv…

Blocking on Twitter isn’t really blocking someone from seeing the tweet. They can just log out and see the tweet. Actually does it even prevent someone from seeing it in the first place, or does it just hide the blocked person from the blocker?

It's the former; you have to log out or open an incognito window to see the tweets of someone who blocked you.

Re: Trump unblocks more Twitter users after U.S. court ruling

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Post by HeadsUpHigh »

chollida1 wrote: post #5

In a slightly related topic to blocking people on twitter, Elon Musk is being investigated by the SEC for a whole whack of things he shouldn't have done. 1) Release material information without alerting the exchange to stop trading and 2) and this is the tie in, releasing said information on his personal twitter account. Now this is normally fine based on RegFD but he has blocked people on twitter and RegFD is very c…

This is pushing it sooo much that makes me wonder if you have an agenda here. Tweets can be viewed without signing in( including replies) so anyone actually has access to them. Additionally there is legal text in the Tesla shares saying "expect updates on social media".
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