Appeals court rules Trump violated First Amendment by blocking Twitter users

A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that President Trump is not allowed to block people on Twitter over statements he does not like, affirming a lower court’s decision that declared the president’s account a "public forum."

周二一家联邦上诉法院裁定，特朗普总统不能因为他不喜欢的言论而屏蔽推特用户，此次裁定再次确认了下级法院宣布的关于“总统的推特账户是公共论坛”的裁定。

In a Tuesday decision, the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals noted that because Trump uses Twitter to communicate with the public about his administration, and his account is open to the public for people to comment on his posts, it warrants constitutional free speech protection under the First Amendment.

第二巡回上诉法院在周二的裁定中指出，由于特朗普通过推特与公众进行管理政策的沟通，因此它的账户需要对公众开放，人们也可以对他的帖子发表评论，这样才能保证宪法第一修正案中关于言论自由的保护。

"We do conclude," the opinion said, "that the First Amendment does not permit a public official who utilizes a social media account for all manner of official purposes to exclude persons from an otherwise‐open online dialogue because they expressed views with which the official disagrees."

该意见称“我们得出的结论是，第一修正案不允许任何出于官方目的的公职人员在社交媒体账户上因其他用户发表不同的观点而将其排除在公开在线对话之外。”

According to court documents, Trump admitted that he blocked the plaintiffs in the case in 2017 after they posted tweets that "criticized him or his policies." Once they were blocked, they were no longer able to view Trump’s tweets while logged in, and no longer had access to reply to tweets or view comment threads on Trump’s Twitter page.

法庭文件显示，特朗普承认，他在2017年屏蔽了原告发布的“批评他或他的政策”的推文。“一旦用户被屏蔽，他们登录时就无法查看特朗普的推文，也无法对特朗普的推文进行回复，也不能再看到特朗普推特页面上的评论。”

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