It objectively is controlling access to government by restricting a group of people from the same level of service. The presence of those other options does not eliminate the benefit of access via Twitter. In the example I provided others can see if someone else has asked the question before they do on an active situation, saving both parties time, which is why they have people monitoring Twitter for immediate response. People who are banned cannot even follow accounts in a read-only state, requiring that you bookmark the individual twitter accounts of all the places you wish to follow.

If the government wishes to leave Twitter in a deregulated state, government agencies should be forced to close their Twitter accounts in order to restore equal access.

Until then, any counterargument is on the same level of stating that because the function of some government agencies is available via snail mail, there is no need to include handicap access to buildings. Most people have functioning legs and can enter the building, and the others can use the mail, so it all works out, right? The courts ruled no on that matter, and they will likely rule no on this one should a banned Twitter user have sufficient financial resources to push such a lawsuit through.

The fact that some people are able to contact representatives and government agencies via Twitter, and others are banned from doing so, means there is unequal access to government officials and agencies.

For example, if I see a problem or have a question regarding the NYC subway, I can tweet @nyctsubway and get a response within a few minutes. Here is someone (not me) who did that just 30 minutes ago. I cannot get that level of service from my tax and fare-funded government service if I am banned from Twitter.

They set up Parler, which gives the banned a second chance at communicating with Republican politicians, but does nothing for people who wish to communicate with government agencies, Democrats, and Democrat appointed officials.

This is an equal access issue. People banned from Twitter have less access to government than people who aren't.

Politicians, public officials and government agencies interact with their constituents on Twitter, turning it into a digital town square. This is why Donald Trump was legally barred from blocking Twitter users.

That Twitter can permanently ban users (while also banning attempts at ban evasion) is inconsistent with that premise. At a minimum, a Twitter ban should at most place someone in a position where they can only reply to / tag government officials and agencies.

Imagine if during the Trump era one of the Trumps somehow acquired Twitter. And, following the ruling that Trump could not block people, Twitter then banned the people Trump wanted to block, by data mining their accounts for ToS violations.

Public unis should be free, possibly with some sort of school choice type scheme for people who insist on private, and end the concept of student loans entirely. Either pay your way via grants and scholarships, take out a personal loan if you can, or go to the public uni. Watch private tuitions crater.

I knew Judge Sullivan's name was familiar, he's the one who handled the copyright infringement case Hughes v Benjamin (aka Sargon of Akkad), and not only ruled in Benjamin's favor but awarded him $37k in attorney fees due to Hughes' tweets indicating it was a bad faith lawsuit.

Thank you for this well sourced response. There are a lot of people thinking that because some of the nonviolent ones were released, all of them are happily walking free.

The same situation occurred in the other direction regarding the summer rioters; because many people were freed there is the mistaken assumption that all violent rioters got away with destruction and looting, when local papers all over the country are reporting on actual convictions with jail time.

I can't believe you got +5 informative for this, but the article refutes your statement and confirms GP (Note he said inside the capital [sic]):

Missing from that list: guns (a singular stun gun is a stretch).

Complete with raising the bridges if you cause too much mayhem.

Spectrum (formerly Time Warner) has no data cap.

Show me specifically where an elected Republican said to use force at the Capitol. You can't, because they didn't.

The inflammatory rhetoric from Trump and some House Republicans was inciteful, but no more inciteful than the Democratic "cops are systemically murdering minorities" rhetoric that inflamed tensions all summer.

Not when I joined, pretty sure you got phished there if you saw a SSN field...

I mistyped part of my prior comment:

I meant that parenthetical to go next to NT 4.
Win 2K was the first one with the "Professional" moniker, expanding beyond the "server" and "workstation" paradigm of NT.

Win 2k was originally branded NT 5, succeeding NT 3.5 and NT 4. However, they wanted to switch people from the old dos based one to the NT kernel, so they rebranded it in line with their desktop OSes - Win 95, Win 98, Win 2K (divided into "server" and "workstation"). For whatever reason that didn't pan out (perhaps backward compatibility with DOS games). Businesses bought most of the desktops/laptops preinstalled with 2k while non-enthusiast home users got ones preinstalled with the turd of ME. XP was their second stab at unifying.

Now that I think about it, ME's shortfalls became an inadvertent psyop. People who might otherwise be inclined to cling to dos became enamored with the superior 2k product, paving the way for XP Home.

The platforms would be less terrible without the giant columns for Madison Square Garden running right through them. Dismantle MSG and those columns can go away. Beyond that, look into through routing so that trains don't need to sit at the platform for hours, then you can take out some tracks and fill the space in with more platform.