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What Trump Can Teach Us About Con Law

President Twitter and the First Amendment

What Trump Can Teach Us About Con Law

Roman Mars

Government

4.84.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 June 2018

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Can Trump block people on Twitter? It turns out, the First Amendment has something to say about that.

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0:00.0

So quick without thinking, what is Twitter to you?

0:05.0

I think of it is broadcasting, actually.

0:07.0

I think that's why I'm comfortable on Twitter.

0:09.0

I think if it is a place that I can broadcast my thoughts.

0:11.0

To anyone in the world? Yeah, anyone who wants it. Do you have

0:15.1

conversations on Twitter? I do. Do you feel like it's a mass audience or are you

0:20.3

they private conversations? I think of it as mass audience.

0:23.3

Mass audience.

0:24.3

Is it a way for you to learn anything or just do the talking?

0:27.9

It's a way for me to learn things, but as you get more followers, you're sort of more, it's a little bit more, you're having a conversation,

0:36.2

you have to keep the conversation going with people who are engaging with you,

0:39.3

rather than just monitoring it.

0:41.8

What is being on Twitter like in 2018 for you? I mean I think

0:44.9

if it is this repository of random thoughts for me and then I use it as a as a

0:50.1

filter device for the news I should be paying attention to.

0:55.0

So it's both.

0:56.0

You're the audience and you're the speaker.

0:58.0

Absolutely.

0:59.0

Yeah, good.

1:00.0

And with that as a little prelude, let's now talk about protest, free speech, and women suffrage.

1:06.0

On January 10th, 1917, the silent sentinels began to pick at the White House.

1:12.0

They were a group of women pick at the White House.

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