There is no Fourth Amendment protection for social media posts.

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There is no Fourth Amendment protection for social media posts.

Author: conorlarkin (19680 Posts - Original UHND Member)

Posted at 8:08 am on Jan 4, 2023

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Hence, the Government is free to monitor what one puts out to the world to read.

If the Government can read what one posts, they are free to tattle tale and notify and ask the platform to terminate the terms of service agreement with the subscriber.

The platform makes a business decision where they draw the line with their terms of service rules. That is a question of contract law.

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Replies to: "There is no Fourth Amendment protection for social media posts."

Again, they don't believe in free speech. [LINK] - MAS - 10:52pm 1/3/23 (37) [View All]
- All speech is free, but some speech is more free than other speech - Nigel Tufnel - 9:40am 1/4/23
- And again, the first amendment does not protect your right to post bilge on Twitter [NT] - Chris94 - 11:41pm 1/3/23
  - You would be fine with Trump doing all of this? - NedoftheHill - 10:16am 1/4/23
  - The government moved to limit its citizens speech who were political opponents. - BaronVonZemo - 7:28am 1/4/23
    - No they didn't, they encouraged it. [NT] [IMAGE] - Hibakusha - 9:29am 1/4/23
      - You are correct. They did encourage it and this guy has never been arrested. [NT] [IMAGE] - TampaIrish - 10:16am 1/4/23
      - You are cool with that? [NT] - NedoftheHill - 10:16am 1/4/23
        With what? [NT] - Hibakusha - 11:25am 1/4/23
        Thanks Jimbasilakusha. [NT] - NedoftheHill - 11:40am 1/4/23
        Snap! [NT] - Hibakusha - 12:06pm 1/4/23
    - There is no Fourth Amendment protection for social media posts. - conorlarkin - 8:08am 1/4/23
      - Social media is the new press. Imagine if they did this with the NYT…oh wait….. [NT] - BaronVonZemo - 8:50am 1/4/23
        Or imagine - just imagine! - if people couldn’t post an NYPost story about Hunter Biden - Chris94 - 9:00am 1/4/23
        Baby steps, Chris. Baby steps. - NedoftheHill - 1:30pm 1/4/23
      - I guess you are just an apologist for the monsters of history [NT] - Chris94 - 8:43am 1/4/23
        True, thank God Twitter did not fall in line with the fascists. [NT] - PaND - 8:45am 1/4/23
        I don’t think that’s strong enough. Obviously just pure evil. [NT] - Chris94 - 8:59am 1/4/23
        You're really taking it too far, not funny. [NT] - PaND - 10:08am 1/4/23
        Yes I guess I really crossed the line there. [NT] - Chris94 - 11:28am 1/4/23
        Yes the line between funny and not funny. - PaND - 12:34pm 1/4/23
      - what's laughable about your post is how difficult the government can make life for a company that - WestCoastIrishFan - 8:33am 1/4/23
    - the ends justify the means [NT] - WestCoastIrishFan - 7:46am 1/4/23
      - Yes. Liberalism Rule #3. [NT] - BaronVonZemo - 7:53am 1/4/23
  - sure it does, if someone lacks the ability to think, that’s on the person. It starts - WestCoastIrishFan - 7:05am 1/4/23
  - It's a little fascist. - iairishcheeks - 6:20am 1/4/23
  - No, but it does protect the government from doing it. [NT] - irishsmashmouth - 12:11am 1/4/23
  - Talk about the gov'ts involvement or stop wasting your time. - jabbadoody5 - 12:11am 1/4/23
    - “The monsters of history didn't act alone.” - Chris94 - 8:05am 1/4/23
      - Lazy effort.Why even reply if that's that's what you're going to reply with? [NT] - jabbadoody5 - 8:39am 1/4/23
        Because absurd garbage posts don’t deserve serious response - Chris94 - 8:43am 1/4/23
        The topic is not absurd garbage. - jabbadoody5 - 9:00am 1/4/23
- The lines between Twitter and the Fed's were completely blurred - jabbadoody5 - 11:17pm 1/3/23
  - It isn't, but that doesn't matter in a banana republic. - MAS - 12:04am 1/4/23
  - Question is: Can the genie be put back in the bottle?...or is this the future for the United States? [NT] - NedoftheHill - 11:27pm 1/3/23
    - If Americans can’t post NYP stories in social media, is it really even America any more? [NT] - Chris94 - 9:32am 1/4/23
    - Only if the left gets their heads out of their asses. - Iggle - 6:43am 1/4/23
    - I think MAS summed up the future as well as anything I've heard. - jabbadoody5 - 12:21am 1/4/23