A member of the Brooklyn Assembly is supposedly blocking the locals to make publications that do not like in their social media pages, and even dared a critic to take her to court.
Emily Gallagher of Greenpoint, a democratic socialist, has been quietly eliminating the critical or non -complementary comments or has completely restricted certain users to interact with their pages of political media during the time that is bone, the publication has learning.
That could be a violation of the first amendment as a public official, according to experts.
“The parallels between the way it operates and the way in which the theocracy operates or how fascism begins, is right in money.” Shannon Phipps, the founder of Berry Street AllianceHe told the post.
PHIPPS said it has been blocked from the Instagram account of Gallagher since June 2024 after years of Publicly exploiting the city’s open street programadmitting the member of the Assembly.
PHIPPS said he had noticed that the answers in response to Gallagher’s tweets apparently disappeared shortly after she publishes them, possible as part of an X feature that allows users to “hide” unpleasant interactions.
Other neighbors have submitted similar accusations in recent months, with statements that are punished for criticizing Gallagher’s policies or simply asking him to take measures on neighborhood issues.
Gallagher’s Instagram public page on Thursday showed minimal negative comments. Several publications indicated that there were numerous comments that were not a population under images, an indication that they could have hidden from the public.
The publication also saw several screenshots that show that Gallagher restricted several users to interact directly with it on social networks.
“People are being blocked for having a political criticism of it, or you are publishing something about a political problem you want to pay attention. It’s that. It is not,” Emily, you are fat and ugly. “They are real things,” said Phipps.
Denise Meyerson, who has lived in the neighborhood for more than two decades, for the first time that it did not occur to him to comment on the Instagram publications of Gallagher in 2021, the same year that the office of the Tok politician.
Meyerson had criticized Gallagher’s support for McGuinness Bike Lane and demanded that the politician intervene in a plan to convert 300 free parking places in Meeker Avenue into measured places.
“I would comment on their publications and then my comments would disappear. I was directly related to the neighborhood things, but she always erased the comments,” Meyerson said.
The Brooklynite even called Gallagher for censoring his positions, leaving only those who were courtesy, but the politician declared himself innocent, screenshots shared with the post program.
Even more shameless, Rochester’s transplant dared Meyerson to take his complaints to the courts, saying: “Find out to take him to court, but it was not fight. But this tactic or repeatedly commenting on each publication with Totally!”
Meyerson replied “that’s his attitude.”
“She doesn’t drive very well to be a local politician,” Meyerson said. “She is not mature enough to be like a diplomat in the neighborhood.”
“It is very frustrating and is not democratic, what they claim to be. It is not absolutely not. It does not attest to the local government.”
Censorship is equally more atrocious because Gallagher does not respond to constituent emails and his office has limited hours, both PHIPPS and Meyerson, and added that only those with reflex points of view receive a call return.
When he was contacted to comment, Gallagher did not recognize accusations about censorship, but said he offers many real life opportunities for his voters to connect.
“Our office takes extremely seriously accessibility and availability,” he said in a statement. “We organize regular events and in person and we have a public office, open telephone lines and email access. We invacted in conversations all day with the constituents, those who agree with us and those who do not.”
If it is discovered that Gallagher is eliminating or resting the comments, there is no doubt that he first acts in clear violation of the first amendment because his accounts, under the username “Emilyassembly”, are clearly in Diane, Cacord for office, Cacord for office, Cacord for office, Cacord for Office, Peresing, Offorting Offorting Offorting Jay Justice.
“A social media page is created so that they can be communication exchanges with their voters. You can block people because you don’t like the message,” Peress said.
Peress pointed out Similar case housed Against President Trump in 2018which turned out that a federal judge decides that the president could not block critics of his social media pages. A second lawsuit was filed in 2020, but because the case lasted until Trump was expelled from his position, the Supreme Court finally withdrew it.
The representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has also been beaten with several civil costumes by people who allegedly blocked some followers, a movement She admitted recovering in 2019 Because they were supposed to harass her.
But even cyber harassment does not excuse stifling freedom of expression, Peress said.
“If you were doing this as part of your work as a public servant, I cannot think of a case where you can allow some people to publish and return and the forest allow other people. You are basic discriminatory due to the message.
PHIPPS is considering taking legal measures against Gallagher.
Censorship comes as special for the civic leader, whose father emigrated to the United States from Iran at the end of the 70s in search of the same freedoms that accused Gallagher of suppression.
“He left a very violent situation in which half of our family were killed. People protested for freedom. They were losing their lives. They were disappearing and oppressed … I have never been able to return to the country’s bee, so Born’s leg explained.
“There is no freedom of expression, there is no freedom of the press. There is no freedom to participate in politics. It is a theocracy. It is all through the eyes of God. So I really have no tolerance to this in Williamsburg in 2025”.
