Perspective
Oct. 3, 2013
Like, that's protected speech
It doesn't take a law degree to know that "liking" any page or post communicates something. By David Greene
Very few social media users "liked" a federal district court decision last year that held that the act of "liking" a political candidate's Facebook page was not a "substantive statement" deserving of First Amendment protection. Bland v. Roberts, 857 F. Supp. 2d 599 (E.D. Va. 2012). The decision seemed obviously wrong to anyone who had ever used Facebook. It doesn't take a law degree to know that "l...
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