Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez blocked a conservative news outlet on Twitter, and legal experts say that could be unconstitutional

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez blocked the right-wing media outlet The Daily Caller from following her on Twitter account last week — a decision some legal experts say may have violated the First Amendment. "I think pretty clearly she's blurring the lines between what's strictly campaigning, what's personal expression, and what's her official account as a member of Congress," Bloch-Wehba told INSIDER, adding, "The idea you could selectively discriminate on the basis of viewpoints just because someone doesn't live in the district seems problematic to me." Read more: 'Beauty fades, stupid's forever': A Fox News contributor says Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez 'photographs well' but questions whether she 'matters' More broadly, free speech advocates are concerned that allowing public officials to censor criticism shields them and their followers from differing points of view and could help transform their accounts into echo chambers. Ken White, a First Amendment law and criminal defense attorney at Brown White & Osborn (and also a blogger at the popular legal site, Popehat), said he doesn't believe Ocasio-Cortez or Trump violated the free speech rights of those they've blocked. "There's a right to petition the government, but there's no right to be heard — there's no right for them to listen to you." But White acknowledged that "the old rules are a little awkward when you try to apply them to the new technology." This isn't the first time Ocasio-Cortez has tangled with The Daily Caller.