San Antonio, Texas: Policy restricts comments on city鈥檚 social media pages
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Case Overview
San Antonio maintains a policy that restricts First Amendment-protected speech in the comment sections of its social media pages. The policy bans 鈥渄iscriminatory鈥 and 鈥減rofane鈥 comments, information that 鈥渕ay compromise鈥 the safety of the public, and 鈥渆ndorsement鈥 of any non-government entity.
On August 19, FIREwrote to the city explaining that it cannot constitutionally ban these and other comments.
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