Washington, United States.
The Supreme Court of the United States on Monday dismissed a case over whether former US President Donald Trump could block users on Twitter, as this was “irrelevant” as the former president has already left power.
The Supreme Court was shelved a business that started in 2017 and that it lost some of its meaning when Twitter permanently suspended Trump’s account last January after his followers stormed the Capitol, but that could have set precedents for how those in power could use social networks.
The highest court in the country did not consider Twitter’s decision to seize his account at Trump, although one of the court’s conservative justices was in favor of evaluating the concerns of the former president’s party about the power of that and other social media companies.
Legal Doctrines
Soon we will have no choice but to address the issue to which our legal doctrines apply information infrastructures highly concentrated and privately owned, such as digital platforms, ”wrote Justice Clarence Thomas.
The Supreme decision Monday was unanimous, ordering a New York court ruling that ruled in 2019 that Trump had no right to block users from his Twitter account as “irrelevant.”
The case began in July 2017, when the Instituto Knight for Columbia University’s First Amendment (New York) sued Trump on behalf of seven users of the social network that the president had blocked.
The complainants alleged that the president was using his personal account (@realDonaldTrump) to spread official government information, so their messages had to be accessible to everyone.
The Second Circuit Court of Appeals concluded in 2019 that Trump made the first amendment to the United States Constitution, which guarantees freedom of speech, as he was a government official who used his networks for official purposes.