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Supreme Court strikes down law banning use of Facebook by registered sex offenders

By CNN
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The US Supreme Court unanimously struck down a North Carolina law that bars the use of commercial social networking sites, including Facebook, by registered sex offenders.
A lower court upheld the law, but lawyers for Lester Gerard Packingham who is a registered sex offender say it is too broad and swept in their client even though his Facebook posting concerned the fact that his parking ticket was dismissed.

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