The Supreme Court struck down a North Carolina law Monday that bans registered sex offenders from accessing Facebook and other social media.
The court ruled 8-0 that the law impermissibly restricts lawful speech in violation of the First Amendment.
In delivering the opinion of the court, Justice Anthony Kennedy said a fundamental principle of the First Amendment is that all persons have access to places where they can speak and listen, and then, after reflection, respond.
“While in the past there may have been difficulty in identifying the most important places (in a spatial sense) for the exchange of views, today the answer is clear,” he said. “It is cyberspace — the ‘vast democratic forums of the Internet’ in general and social media in particular.”
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