re: SCOTUS: Public officials can be held liable for blocking critics on social media

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They aren't regulating the platforms.

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By preventing users from engaging in their contractual relationship with the platforms, the government is.

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They are regulating government officials' use of the platforms.

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Which is a regulation of the platform.

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If I use the U.S. Mail Service to commit a crime and I am arrested for it, the U.S. Mail Service isn't being regulated.

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A crime is inapplicable as that is already a violation of the contractual TOS between company and user.

Users having the contractual right to block followers is part of the TOS between private parties.