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Trump Has Been Sued by People He Blocked on Twitter

• https://motherboard.vice.com, LOUISE MATSAKIS

A civil liberties group and seven people who have been blocked on Twitter by the president have filed a federal lawsuit in the Southern District of New York arguing that Donald Trump is violating the First Amendment by blocking dissenters on his @realdonaldtrump Twitter account.

In June, the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, which is one of the plaintiffs in the lawsuit, sent a letter to Trump asking him to unblock users who he blocked for criticizing him or his policies.

In the Knight Institute's letter to Trump, the organization threatened legal action on First Amendment grounds, claiming that being blocked on Twitter by the president "suppresses speech in a number of ways." A month later, Trump hasn't unblocked them, and so the Institute filed the lawsuit.


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