The Supreme Court next week will consider the First Amendment rights of public officials' use of social media accounts versus the rights of citizens to see what the officials are posting -- and whether it's unlawful for them to be blocked.
The Supreme Court next week will consider the First Amendment rights of public officials’ use of social media accounts versus the rights of citizens to see what the officials are posting — and whether it’s unlawful for them to be blocked.
“This is all about Trump, as I suppose most things are,” Mr. Blackman said. “The issue will still sort of percolate for the foreseeable future because now you have these other officials — you have school board members, sheriffs and the like who are again blocking people for various usage.” A federal appeals court ruled in 2019 that Mr. 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.
The other case comes out of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, where members of a school board in San Diego blocked parents on Facebook and Twitter.
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