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Julian Assange tweets support for Twitter users' lawsuit against Donald Trump

Updated on: 17 July,2017 11:07 AM IST  |  San Francisco
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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has supported a lawsuit filed against US President Donald Trump by a group of Twitter users whom he blocked last week

Julian Assange tweets support for Twitter users' lawsuit against Donald Trump

Julian Assange. Pic/AFP
Julian Assange. Pic/AFP


WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has supported a lawsuit filed against US President Donald Trump by a group of Twitter users whom he blocked last week. "I support this suit against Trump. It a constitutional violation for a state official to block political comments," Assange wrote on Twitter on Saturday. He added that the "only exception" would be "if the user makes the same comment endlessly which would have the effect of denying others space to speak".


Last week, the group argued that Trump's Twitter account amounts to a public forum, that he as a government official cannot bar people from. The blocked users, represented by the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, filed the suit against Trump, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer and Dan Scavino – the White House Director of Social Media on Tuesday. The group claimed that the President's blocking of users on the social network is "unconstitutional". The suit asked Trump to unblock the users.


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