The Knight Institute wrote Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez admonishing her for blocking an ex-New York Assemblyman from her Twitter account. Ocasio-Cortez claimed she was not blocking Dov Hikind on the basis of content, but the Knight Institute wrote that she had established a public forum with her Twitter account and could not exercise viewpoint discrimination. (New York Post, August 29, 2019, by Natalie Musmeci)
Hikind sued Ocasio-Cortez a month after a federal appeals court ruled that President Donald Trump could not block users on his Twitter account that he found unsympathetic. Jameel Jaffer of the Knight Institute also cited a 4th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals decision in a case involving a Virginia county supervisor who tried to block a local man after he made a comment she found objectionable. (Reason, September 29, 2019, by Jacob Sullum)