US Supreme Court to decide if public officials can block critics on social media
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: The Authority of Law statue is seen outside the U.S. Supreme Court at the start of the new term in Washington, U.S., October 2, 2023. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein/File PhotoWASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court is set on Tuesday to explore free speech rights in the digital age in cases from California and Michigan involving whether public officials may legally block others on social media, a function often used on these platforms to stifle critics.
Lower courts reached different conclusions in the two cases, reflecting the legal uncertainty over whether such social media activity is bound by the U.S. Constitution's First Amendment limits on the government's ability to restrict speech. The Supreme Court is tasked with deciding whether the public officials engaged in a"state action" in blocking critics from social media accounts or were merely acting in their personal capacity. The First Amendment constrains government actors but not private individuals.
The first case involves two public school board trustees from Poway, California who appealed a lower court's ruling in favor of parents who sued them after being blocked from the personal accounts of the officials on X, called Twitter at the time, and Facebook, which is owned by Meta Platforms will also be removed; self-promotional material or business-related solicitations or PR , and/or any other comment that contains personal contact specifcs or advertising will be removed as well.
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