Trump, Blocking People On Twitter, And Getting Sued

IN A PERHAPS INEVITABLE DEVELOPMENT, a college professor has filed a lawsuit against President Trump, because Trump blocked the professor on twitter, which inspired the academician to an act of clever litigation genius worthy of a scholar, to claim that the president is violating the constitution by limiting free speech and blocking access to what should be unrestricted access to presidential utterances, which are public property, relevant and important to all Americans, who have the right to hear what their president says. or something like that. On the face of it, it sounds pretty well reasoned, and probably is. We'll find out, through due legal process. I have never tweeted, nor shall I. I aint special, but I have standards, standards which prevent my knowingly entering a communications cesspool. I understand that anybody can join Twitter, type in their 140 character comments, which I recently heard was being increased to 280. Whatever happened to that? It might be too many letters for Americans to comprehend (just kidding).You tweet, people read, and if they choose, they respond. Right? Popular or famous people can accumulate millions of people who read their profundities, called "followers". Tweets can be "retweeted", whatever that is. Am I close? So trump has something like 35 million followers, quite naturally, any one of whom can respond. Everyday I am told on the national news what Trump tweets, and I think any intelligent person would be ashamed to say what he says, but that's another matter. Trump, and people like him, guarantee me that I will never join Twitter. The man is pathological, he frightens and repulses me, and he makes me tremble for my country, to borrow a phrase from Jefferson. The ability of every member of Twitter to block any other member from reading and responding is vital, of course. I remember chatrooms, and I know how it goes online. But Trump, so claims the professor's lawsuit, is public domain, and should be available to us all. (be careful what you wish for, professor). One can scarcely imagine how many people Trump blocks, through sheer perceived necessity. Trump's tweets should probably automatically be accompanied by warnings from the Food and Drug Administration concerning content. And warnings from the FBI about the inadvisability if inappropriate responses. In the meantime, we'll wait and see how the lawsuit turns out. It should provide us with a humorous story to tell our grandchildren, if nothing else.