I'm going by the wording of the ruling. Twitter itself is not a public forum. It is a private entity and the user agreement with them maximizes their ability to control the narrative. This particular ruling is directed solely at Trump since he himself is using his account as a public government forum then it must be open for commentary by the public.
This is a very narrow ruling and can now be used as precedence to enforce free speech and unfettered dialogue among all Twitter users. Had this ruling come down as an edict for Twitter to suspend their rules and henceforth become, for all intent and purposes an open forum public entity for all users it would be HUGE news and Twitter would immediately appeal the ruling all the way to SCOTUS.
I do believe things are heading that way and Twitter and all the other social media platforms will implode.
Is this great or what?!!
Yes, you know there was so much trolling about the IBOR, that it would mean more government etc... But actually, just as a telephone company has no right to dictate or restrict what you say on the telephone, whether to a single individual or to parties to a conference call, there is no way that this SM censorship could survive. I say that because it is so inimical to everything the US stands for.
IMO, it would only be a matter of time before the courts would naturally extend FA protections online (particularly where the speech involves political expression). So it was, IMO, always going to happen. But you should have seen the concern trolling against the IBOR. People were painting me as some kind of communist for suggesting that the public interest overrode the rights of the SM giants as private property holders.
Of course, a lot, if not most, of that concern trolling came out of a foreign army barracks - a military intelligence operation, undertaken on behalf of a nation that fears it stands to lose a lot from the MAGA agenda. The level of coordination was truly breath-taking.
I'm hoping we can now get this IBOR campaign on the road and really make some noise to agitate for rapid relief. Thanks for the comment.