{"id":45401,"date":"2018-10-21T05:00:20","date_gmt":"2018-10-21T09:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=45401"},"modified":"2018-10-20T13:02:57","modified_gmt":"2018-10-20T17:02:57","slug":"politicians-social-media-accounts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2018\/10\/21\/politicians-social-media-accounts\/","title":{"rendered":"Politicians&#8217; social media accounts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Gordon probably has the right of this issue here:<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This is insane. There is no constitutional right for assholes to foist their assholery on anyone, including politicans.<\/p>\n<p>Or at least, there shouldn&#39;t be. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CwhIl8zxPT\">https:\/\/t.co\/CwhIl8zxPT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Stephen Gordon (@stephenfgordon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/stephenfgordon\/status\/1052691261977694208?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 17, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Anyone can view anyone&#39;s tweets. All blocking does is prevent you from doing so *while logged into the blocked account*.<\/p>\n<p>If there&#39;s a constitutional right to access a tweet while logged into a particular account, the law is a ass. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4lS57XX30U\">https:\/\/t.co\/4lS57XX30U<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Stephen Gordon (@stephenfgordon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/stephenfgordon\/status\/1053256731705380869?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 19, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">What concerns me most about the idea of forbidding politicians to block people is that they will simply stop engaging, and their accounts will become &#8211; as almost all politicians&#39; accounts are &#8211; streams of pablum that are probably run by bots.<\/p>\n<p>This would be a step back.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Stephen Gordon (@stephenfgordon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/stephenfgordon\/status\/1053258067775799296?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 19, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It occurs to me that this is in fact the goal of the anti-blocking crowd: to lobotomize the accounts of engaged politicians whose views they don&#39;t like. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/w6ufjHUEDJ\">https:\/\/t.co\/w6ufjHUEDJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Stephen Gordon (@stephenfgordon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/stephenfgordon\/status\/1053261103134920704?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 19, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Gordon probably has the right of this issue here: This is insane. There is no constitutional right for assholes to foist their assholery on anyone, including politicans. Or at least, there shouldn&#39;t be. https:\/\/t.co\/CwhIl8zxPT &mdash; Stephen Gordon (@stephenfgordon) October 17, 2018 Anyone can view anyone&#39;s tweets. All blocking does is prevent you from doing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,53,15],"tags":[459,186,593,310],"class_list":["post-45401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-politics","category-technology","tag-censorship","tag-freedomofspeech","tag-socialmedia","tag-twitter"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-bOh","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45401"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45404,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45401\/revisions\/45404"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}