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- Title
Social Media is the New Town Square: The Difficulty in Blocking Access to Public Official Accounts.
- Authors
Kane, Brian P.
- Abstract
The article focuses on benefit of the direct engagement afforded by social media and elected and high profile public employees have complained about being blocked from their social media. It mentions Facebook page raised a claim of a First Amendment violation that survived summary judgment and settled adversely to the governmental entity. It also mentions the U.S. Supreme Court signaled its agreement with the legal premise that the Internet is a public forum.
- Subjects
SOCIAL media; CIVIL service; FACEBOOK (Web resource); UNITED States. Constitution. 1st Amendment; SUMMARY judgments; FORUMS law
- Publication
Advocate (05154987), 2017, Vol 60, Issue 10, p31
- ISSN
0515-4987
- Publication type
Article