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Constitutional Law

Jun. 2, 2016

Protecting minors and the First Amendment

Does North Carolina's law making it a felony for sex offenders to use websites like Facebook go too far? By Seana Valentine Shiffrin

Seana Valentine Shiffrin

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By Seana Valentine Shiffrin

North Carolina General Statute Section 14-202.5 makes it a felony for a registered sex offender to access any commercial social networking website that minors may use and that provides more than one of the following services: photo-sharing, email and chat boards. In other words, it makes it a felony for a class of people to use what have become canonical methods of social communication in contemporary life: websites suc...

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