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The ruling could establish whether social media accounts of public officials should be treated as personal or governmental.
If a school board member has a social media account, would it be wrong for them to block someone and delete their comments? That’s a question the Supreme Court has decided to take up after public officials, including two school board members, blocked constituents from seeing their accounts or removed critical comments.
A law scholar examines a pair of cases that pit free speech rights against politicians’ online prerogatives.
The Supreme Court considers whether and when banishing irksome constituents violates the First Amendment.