300 million people use Twitter and even those in the U. S. who don't use it hear about Twitter every day. Maybe you use Twitter, as do friends, athletes, entertainers, public figures, and the President of the United States. One feature of Twitter is that you can block people, that is, you can prevent, for whatever reason, another Twitter user from seeing your tweets, commenting on your tweets, view your followers (those who follow you) or the accounts you follow, or use the Twitter platform for searching for your tweets, and you as the blocking user won't see any tweets by the user you blocked. Now if you block me, no one would argue that your blocking me rises to the level of a violation of any law or the Constitution: you're free to follow or not follow any user and block any user. You have not violated my free speech rights by blocking me. But what if you are the President? What if your account, rather than bei...
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