2. Nobody is trying to compel Twitter to do anything here. They are not a party to the suit. The onus is on Trump to act according to the relevant law by not blocking people; or by not posting on Twitter if he can’t abide by the rules imposed by the law.
3. Sorry for the ambiguous pronoun. Twitter creates the rules for their platform, Trump decides to participate there. By doing so, he is explicitly choosing to participate in a forum discussion, which carries certain consequences (as TFA mentions). If he did not want to let people speak in rebuttal, he could write a blog with comments turned off, or broadcast a weekly radio address. What he can’t do, as a government official, is participate in a public forum in an official capacity, and then silence or demote dissenting speech.
1. Sean Spicer is among the government officials who said that Trump’s tweets represent official statements. https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2017/06/06/poli...
2. Nobody is trying to compel Twitter to do anything here. They are not a party to the suit. The onus is on Trump to act according to the relevant law by not blocking people; or by not posting on Twitter if he can’t abide by the rules imposed by the law.
3. Sorry for the ambiguous pronoun. Twitter creates the rules for their platform, Trump decides to participate there. By doing so, he is explicitly choosing to participate in a forum discussion, which carries certain consequences (as TFA mentions). If he did not want to let people speak in rebuttal, he could write a blog with comments turned off, or broadcast a weekly radio address. What he can’t do, as a government official, is participate in a public forum in an official capacity, and then silence or demote dissenting speech.