Twitter Asks Judge To Reject Trump S Lawsuit Over His Ban
According to the Bloomberg report (via Engadget), Twitter claims that the lawsuit is against the company’s First Amendment free speech rights. Also, Trump has repeatedly violated the rules he has adopted to open accounts on the platform. Twitter concludes that mandatory lifting of Trump’s ban on the platform would challenge “bedrock principles of constitutional law.” “Twitter is a private actor that is not constrained by the federal constitution,” and the government “cannot force the private operator of an online platform, such as Twitter, to disseminate speech with which the operator disagrees....