{"id":66905,"date":"2018-05-24T07:00:30","date_gmt":"2018-05-24T12:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=66905"},"modified":"2018-05-23T21:31:34","modified_gmt":"2018-05-24T02:31:34","slug":"im-gonna-tear-your-echo-chamber-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=66905","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m Gonna Tear Your Echo Chamber Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A court has <a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/news-and-politics\/judge-rules-trump-violates-first-amendment-by-blocking-critics-on-twitter\/\">ruled that President Trump violated the First Amendment<\/a> by blocking his critics on Twitter.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Last July, the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University filed a lawsuit in the Southern District of New York on behalf of seven individuals arguing that blocking users on the @realDonaldTrump account who disagreed with the president&#8217;s policies violated freedom of speech.<\/p>\n<p>The blocked plaintiffs are Maryland professor Philip Cohen, Tennessee Dr. Eugene Gu, Seattle songwriter Holly Figueroa, New York comedy writer Nicholas Pappas, Pittsburgh author Joseph Papp, D.C. legal analyst Rebecca Buckwalter-Poza, and Houston police officer Brandon Neely.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When I found out the president blocked me, it felt as though my opinion didn\u2019t matter,&#8221; Neely said last year. &#8220;After devoting five years of my life to serving this country, the president &#8212; who is supposed to represent the views of all Americans &#8212; did not care what I had to say.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I say bravo, Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald.\u00a0 \u00a0Elected officials\u00a0<em>should\u00a0<\/em>have keep their social media open to everyone that pays their salary.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m looking at you, all you DFL reps that blocked me &#8211; most of them without having ever engaged with me.<\/p>\n<p>More to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A court has ruled that President Trump violated the First Amendment by blocking his critics on Twitter. Last July, the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University filed a lawsuit in the Southern District of New York on behalf of seven individuals arguing that blocking users on the @realDonaldTrump account who disagreed with the president&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-democrats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66905","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=66905"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66905\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66911,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66905\/revisions\/66911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}