![]() But they claimed that since the officials’ platforms were a forum for community discussion about school-board activities, their freedom of speech was unfairly curtailed when the officials blocked them. The Garniers, who sent their children to school in the district, had irked the trustees by writing long, repetitive comments on their virtual pages. In O’Connor-Ratcliff v Garnier, a couple from Poway, a town near San Diego, sued two trustees of the school board for blocking them on Facebook and Twitter. On October 31st two cases not involving the 45th president teed up the same question for the justices: when does an official’s use of a personal social-media account become “state action" and thus subject to constitutional limits? Three hours of debate revealed the difficulty of distinguishing between personal use of Facebook and posts that are, in the terms of a precedent from 1982, “fairly attributable to the state".
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