The U.S. Supreme Court is set on Tuesday to explore free speech rights in the digital age in cases from California and Michigan involving whether public officials may legally block others on social media, a function often used on these platforms to stifle critics. Lower courts reached different conclusions in the two cases, reflecting the legal uncertainty over whether such social media activity is bound by the U.S. Constitution's First Amendment limits on the government's ability to restrict speech. The Supreme Court is tasked with deciding whether the public officials engaged in a "state action" in blocking critics from social media accounts or were merely acting in their personal capacity.
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Early questions posed by the justices suggested they were struggling to determine the circumstances under which a social media account should be considered personal or official.
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