The Supreme Court wrestled with where to draw the line when it comes to the personal social media accounts of government workers.
The Supreme Court on Tuesday wrestled with where to draw the line when it comes to the personal social media accounts of government workers and steps to censor comments or block access for certain individual users.
Constitutional protections for free speech govern official conduct and limit government employees' ability to silence certain commentary in the public square, but those protections do not generally extend to private conduct or property. Justice Sonia Sotomayor said that measure would "not be adequate at all," since many public officials say they are "on duty 24 hours a day."
Chief Justice John Roberts said "one clear rule" could be to draw the line on the wider availability of the information that is communicated on a personal page.
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