The law bans sex offenders from using social media sites
The Supreme Court on Monday heard arguments on whether a North Carolina law blocking sex offenders from social media sites like Facebook is unconstitutional.
The case involved registered sex offender Lester G. Packingham Jr. who posted on Facebook in 2010 celebrating his dismissed traffic ticket violating the North Carolina law passed in 2008 that prohibits registered sex offenders from accessing social media sites that are open to people under the age of 18.
Packingham was prosecuted for the violation and received a suspended sentence reports Breitbart, despite his lawyer claiming that the 2008 law was unconstitutional and violated his First Amendment right.
Supreme Court justices voiced skepticism about the law and said that it limits free speech “dramatically”.
According to a report by The Sacramento Bee, Justice Elena Kagan hammered North Carolina Senior Deputy Attorney General Robert C. Montgomery with observations about the omnipresence of social media in modern society.
“Everybody uses Twitter,” Kagan said. “This has become a crucially important channel of political communication.”
Out of the 20,000 registered sex offenders in North Carolina, about 1000 of them have been prosecuted under the law.
A decision is expected by the end of June.
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