"Can a Public Official Block You on Social Media?," with Prof. Jeff Rosen, Prof. David Cole, and Me

Jeff Rosen is the head of the National Constitution Center; David Cole is the National Legal Director of the ACLU; we discuss the Supreme Court's cases on the subject, which were argued Tuesday.

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[Krayt]

I’d feel a little better about disinterested concerns about public fora or limited public fora if, in practice, it weren’t being used as a hammer against political opponents. There’s a facetious dishonesty here.

“But he doesn’t want people responding and tearing at his ideas here!”

“But you do want that!”

Nevermind, if that’s the law, that’s the law. Still, I would prefer clarity from Congress on it rather than creative judiciatt hahahahah clarity from Congress lol.

[Social Justice is neither]

If the leftists were to live by their own rules nobody in public office should be allowed to block anybody. But they have no principles, only weapons.

[defaultdotxbe]

Another question: Can a public official have a social media account set to private, and only allow approved followers? (effectively blocking everyone by default) My representative did that for a while, although I just checked and apparently he's changed his setting. He was private for several years though.