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

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That reasoning might apply if the private social media company banned or restricted speech but in these cases it is the government official banning users.

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Banning them via the private outlet.

If a constituent goes into a private establishment, say a restaurant, and yells at a politician, the pol can't ask the restaurant to escort them out?

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This endorsement is all I need to see (without even reading the details) to know that the ruling is a very good one.

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When the ruling against Trump came out, MAGA was very upset and I agreed with them. Sorry for being consistent

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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.

He has joined the "elite" group of HHTDS and IBChinaman of "did not read, downvoted out of principle".

Public officials should be held to a higher level of accountability. They should not be able to freely spread false information without being fact checked and corrected on the same forum where they made the original statement.