The Supreme Court on Tuesday grappled with the free speech rights of public officials versus the rights of their constituents on social media and whether it's lawful for them to be blocked from viewing posts.
FILE - The Supreme Court is seen in Washington, Sept. 25, 2023. The Supreme Court is tackling the question of when public officials can block critics from commenting on their social media accounts. The justices are hearing arguments in two …The Supreme Court on Tuesday grappled with the free speech rights of public officials versus the rights of their constituents on social media and whether it’s lawful for them to be blocked from viewing posts.
Mr. Lindke, as a resident of Port Huron, argued that Mr. Freed used his Facebook page for personal and professional posts, including sharing important data on COVID-19. Mr. Lindke claimed his First Amendment rights were violated by being blocked. Board members told the high court that the accounts were maintained without government funding, and the parents were blocked after spamming the accounts. The parents had commented about racist incidents and financial mismanagement, according to court records.
In 2019, a federal appeals court ruled that former President Donald Trump’s use of his personal Twitter account for posts related to his position as president and communicating with the public meant he could not block critics from seeing the posts.
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