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TheCount
06-19-2017, 11:47 PM
The title is a little bit clickbaity, but I didn't want to change from the source. I'll bold the source of the author's conclusion:


The US Supreme Court on Monday declared as unconstitutional a 2008 North Carolina law barring registered sex offenders from accessing commercial social media sites where minors may become members or create personal pages or profiles.

The justices ruled that the law, used to prosecute more than 1,000 registered sex offenders, was a breach of the First Amendment because "cyberspace" amounted to the "modern public square." The court said the North Carolina law, which bars sex offenders from sites like Facebook and Twitter, "enacts a prohibition unprecedented in the scope of First Amendment speech it burdens."

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"Social media allows users to gain access to information and communicate with one another about it on any subject that might come to mind... By prohibiting sex offenders from using those websites, North Carolina with one broad stroke bars access to what, for many, are the principal sources for knowing current events, checking ads for employment, speaking and listening in the modern public square, and otherwise exploring the vast realms of human thought and knowledge. These websites can provide perhaps the most powerful mechanisms available to a private citizen to make his or her voice heard."

Separate opinion:

"I cannot join the opinion of the Court, however, because of its undisciplined dicta. The Court is unable to resist musings that seem to equate the entirety of the Internet with public streets and parks," Alito wrote.


https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/06/sex-offenders-cannot-be-excluded-from-social-media-supreme-court-says/

helmuth_hubener
06-20-2017, 08:46 AM
Never fear: Moldbug is on the way.

CaptUSA
06-20-2017, 09:39 AM
How about the SC debate the Constitutionality of registries.

Never mind what they do to people on the registries.

NorthCarolinaLiberty
06-20-2017, 10:58 AM
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