Texas Sen. John Cornyn Unblocks Twitter Critic After Being Sued Over the Ban
Joining the company of his good buddy President Donald Trump, U.S. Sen. John Cornyn has been sued in federal court for banning a critic from his Twitter feed.
In the suit, Tod Beardsley, research director for cybersecurity company Rapid7, maintains that the Texas GOP senator engaged in “viewpoint-based discrimination and censorship” on a public political forum.
On Friday, the day after the suit was filed, Cornyn reversed his ban, the Austin-American Statesman reports. A spokesman for the senator's office told the paper Beardsley was “inadvertently” blocked.
Even so, on a website he created to document beef with Cornyn, Beardsley said he's continuing with the suit to "prevent this from happening to anyone else. And maybe recover some legal fees."
He added: "Also, hey Twitter? Make it harder for people to accidentally block people. Especially when the people doing the blocking are government officials."
https://www.sacurrent.com/the-daily/archives/2020/05/05/texas-sen-john-cornyn-unblocks-twitter-critic-after-being-sued-over-the-ban
