First Amendment group asks Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to unblock critics on Twitter

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The Knight First Amendment Institute, which has led a legal fight against Trump for blocking critics on Twitter, has officially asked Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) to stop similar practices. The institute sent a letter to Ocasio-Cortez’s office late yesterday, urging her to unblock anybody who was targeted “because of the viewpoints they have expressed,” while also acknowledging that some blocks might be “both reasonable and constitutionally legitimate.”

Multiple US courts have ruled that government social media accounts can be constitutionally protected public spaces, including the Twitter account of President Donald Trump whom the Knight Institute sued for blocking accounts for political reasons in 2017. The Second Circuit...

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source https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/29/20838509/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-aoc-twitter-blocking-lawsuit-knight-institute-columbia-university-letter

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