Robert Barnes: Technically, Trump blocks nobody; Twitter performs the blocking function based on its app. If Trump cannot block people w/o violating First Amendment, how can Twitter block people w/o violating First Amendment?
Therefore, Twitter cannot block people. How do you like that, Jack?
Robert Barnes: That is what my suit against Twitter pending in California on behalf of Charles Johnson argues: that Twitter is a public forum, like the company towns of yesteryear, and cannot discriminate based on ideological viewpoint.
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