{"id":63934,"date":"2017-07-28T11:00:32","date_gmt":"2017-07-28T16:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=63934"},"modified":"2017-07-27T19:56:57","modified_gmt":"2017-07-28T00:56:57","slug":"lets-sue-the-president-over-his-twitter-account","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=63934","title":{"rendered":"Let&#8217;s Sue The President Over His Twitter Account"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A bunch of journos are apparently getting ready to sue the President for blocking them from his Twitter account.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m about ready to send money to their plaintiff&#8217;s fund.<\/p>\n<p>Wny?<\/p>\n<p>Because the journos are right. \u00a0Why should pols get to decide whose speech to restrict, and from whom they can restrict access to their public speech?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s downright un-American.<\/p>\n<p>And I&#8217;ve got quite a little list of DFL pols who&#8217;ve done\u00a0<em>exactly\u00a0<\/em>the same to me, and I&#8217;d guess most every conservative pundit in Minnesota.<\/p>\n<p>In some cases &#8211; like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=55359\">Kim &#8220;Profile in Courage&#8221; Norton<\/a> &#8211; it was because <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=58761\">I publicly called out her lies <\/a>over &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=56349\">criminal protection&#8221; laws<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And yes, I may have actually broken the story of Alondra &#8220;The Industrial Engineer&#8221; Cano <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=56799\">distributing personal information on Twitter<\/a> about people who&#8217;d criticized her\u00a0<em>privately\u00a0<\/em> (or so they thought() on the City of Minneapolis website to try <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=58756\">to bully them into silence<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Both of these politicians blocked me almost immediately after I publicly ate their lunches. \u00a0Waah waah waaah.<\/p>\n<p>Likewise, the Twitter accounts of &#8220;Alliance for a Better Minnesota&#8221; and &#8220;Protect MN&#8221; have long since blocked me &#8211; because I crush them every time I turn my attention to them.<\/p>\n<p>But others &#8211; Rep. Melissa Hortmann, Senator Tina LIebling, as well as several DFL-xupporting non-profits &#8211; already had me blocked before I ever attempted to write\/tweet about them.<\/p>\n<p>I know that there\u00a0<em>are\u00a0<\/em>apps that can systematically block\u00a0<em>all\u00a0<\/em>social media from authors matching some lists or algorithms &#8211; which is why I suspect the blanket block from DFL pols.<\/p>\n<p>But I don&#8217;t care. \u00a0If it&#8217;s fair for CNN, it&#8217;s fair for me.<\/p>\n<p>Remember that in all cases, while I am a stone-cold purveyor of unassailable fact, I am also scrupulously polite to a fault. \u00a0 \u00a0Anyone who wants to claim otherwise is welcome to prove it &#8211; and yes, there I AM more than willing to file a test case. \u00a0I&#8217;m not the sharpest tool in the box, but I&#8217;m\u00a0<em>way\u00a0<\/em>smarter than that.<\/p>\n<p>So yes, &#8220;journos&#8221;. \u00a0Sue Donald Trump. \u00a0I beg of you. \u00a0Indeed, there&#8217;s some legal grounding already starting to happen:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/DFxSK0IXYAAhu5x.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-63935 alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/DFxSK0IXYAAhu5x.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"384\" height=\"455\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/DFxSK0IXYAAhu5x.jpg 744w, http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/DFxSK0IXYAAhu5x-252x300.jpg 252w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 384px) 100vw, 384px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So let the courts court, and the juries jurr.<\/p>\n<p>Then get it incorporated onto all the states.<\/p>\n<p>And hurry. \u00a0Some MN Pols need some freaking free speech already.<\/p>\n<p>And we&#8217;ve got some lost time to make up for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bunch of journos are apparently getting ready to sue the President for blocking them from his Twitter account. I&#8217;m about ready to send money to their plaintiff&#8217;s fund. Wny? Because the journos are right. \u00a0Why should pols get to decide whose speech to restrict, and from whom they can restrict access to their public [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,129,349],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberal-tyranny","category-unions","category-urban-liberal-privilege-liberal-tyranny"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63934"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63936,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63934\/revisions\/63936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}