 Good morning. How are you doing today? Today we are going to talk about a recent decision by a federal judge that US President Donald Trump cannot block people from his Twitter account. And this is really important. Actually, I did not even know about this decision because I was traveling in Prague before that I was in Canada. So I was not aware what was going on there. But this morning a YouTube popped up in my feed and it was a painful watch for 12 minutes where I saw this guy just I don't even know what he was talking about. He has no idea how things work. He was either confused or trying to confuse people. He was saying you know what does that decision mean that now I cannot block users or companies cannot block users or FBI cannot block users or whatever. But that's how conspiracy theorists you know operate. I mean Donald Trump himself is a conspiracy theorist. So after watching that video I decided to just talk about it quickly because it's really important. First of all I am a science fiction writer. Second is I also cover IT. I mean that's my primary job and I feel that online world is becoming an extension of our real or physical world. We actually do more things in the online world than we do in a real world. Yeah I know it's not true but to some extent I mean whether it's entertainment I mean watching movies on Netflix or HBO or reading books or listening to music communicating with each other making friends reading news everything is online. At the same time it's the online world is also becoming the primary mode of communication not only between individuals but also between citizens and governments. So as we extend this world and we take our lives into the online world it's really important that we bring all the freedom to the online world as well. The First Amendment ensures that governments cannot restrict freedom of speech. You can say whatever you want to say for publicly elected officials which also includes the president of the United States. Just imagine in real world an elected official or the president bans people from interacting with him which would mean a majority of US citizens will not be able to interact with Donald Trump because he lost popular votes and he talks about that too. So all those people who did not vote for him he can block them from writing to him or talking to him but that is not how the US government works you know people have the right to petition the government. And in the real world you know we are protected but in the online world since we are using services which are run by private company like Twitter and Donald Trump instead of using proper channels he uses Twitter as his mouthpiece whether and he uses Twitter whether it's Beijing war on Iran or not Kurya or attacking his opponents which is almost everyone so it's not surprising that he has a lot of critics there on Twitter and his Twitter so he just blocks people whose comments he doesn't like should he be allowed to do that yes if he is a private citizen then he can and as the dude on the YouTube said you know oh private decisions and companies no the first amendment is not applied to companies even if there's a difference between publicly traded companies with IPO versus publicly elected officials so yes everyone else can block anyone but the government cannot do that now you can argue that well this is not the official White House or POTUS account it's his private account no it's not because he does not use that account by private purposes he doesn't use it to to to to to interact with Stormy Daniels he uses it to declare policies to declare wars North Korea Iran and whatsoever at the same time he is no more a private citizen he's a public official he's the president of the United States no matter how unfortunate it is he is so there's no difference between his personal account and the official account I mean just think about his mouth whatever comes out his mouth he cannot say with you know what I was talking at that moment I was talking the privatization my mouth I use this mouth also to interact with my wife and my kids so I do have phases when I'm a private citizen and I'm a public official no once elected you are a publicly elected official so his Twitter account also is an extension of that so he should not be allowed to block people on his Twitter because imagine if that is the situation in the real world then what will happen is that almost all publicly elected official will block people who did not vote for them from interacting them from writing them emails or from writing the letters or meeting them in person that's pretty much dictatorship where you only allow people who support you to interact with you so I'm so happy that the court made this decision because no public official should be able to ban the citizens they were elected to serve remain this is a republic and a democracy we elect people to serve us not to rule over us that is dictatorship that is kind of communism we are not communist yet though the way a particular party is operating where whether it's voter suppression or all those things we are heading in a very dangerous territory but we are not yet so it's it's very important that our freedom of speech is protected in the online world as well and that's the decision that the judge made so I'm really happy about that and I also wanted to clear some air about it because that dude damn just a conclusion that yes as a publicly elected official you cannot ban and block people on Twitter or any other online forum period thanks for watching see you next time