Some Utah social media users complain that officials are silencing dissent by blocking them on social media. ACLU of Utah offers guidance to help people determine when their free speech rights are violated.
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Recently, a Twitter user with a similar objection began circulating a survey asking people if a Utah official had ever blocked them. More than ashowing that Weiler, Rep. Jordan Teuscher and others had cut them off. When it comes to official social media channels, legislators say they don’t have many options in responding to harassment.
, with judges concluding the account was not simply a personal outlet because it was routinely used to make official government statements. Officials are allowed to screen out harassment or spam, even on their government accounts, but they shouldn’t be simply silencing dissent, he said. Rep. Jordan Teuscher, R-South Jordan during House floor time at the Utah Legislative Session, Jan. 28, 2022.“I blocked you on Twitter as you seem to be more interested in trolling than actually having substantive policy discussions,” Teuscher wrote in a Facebook response. “You are not a constituent of mine, I don’t owe you any explanations, and quite honestly, I don’t have time to respond to your conspiracy theories.
He created his Twitter profile in 2009, before he became a state official and while he was serving as a leader in the Utah GOP, and envisioned it as a way to discuss party politics online. Since then, he’s become among the most visible and polarizing Twitter personas in the Legislature, openly admitting he intentionally needles people with some of his posts.
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