Officials Don't Get to Choose Who Gets to Receive, Comment, and Reply to Tweets
Here&#x27;s where I part ways with the EFF&#x27;s analysis:  The article says, &quot;the First Amendment doesn’t just protect your right to speak your mind. <i>It also protects your right to receive, read, hear, see, and obtain information and ideas.</i>&quot; (Italics added.)<p>The first amendment says, &quot;Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.&quot;<p>I understand that there are literally dozens of bound volumes of case analysis that apply to the interpretation of this amendment by dozens of courts great and small, but I don&#x27;t think any of them have gone so far as to say that I have a constitutional right to receive information in a certain medium.  If a tweet is that important, some newspaper will reprint it.