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The parents felt that their concerns over race relations in the school district were going unheard and turned to social media to post hundreds of repetitive comments on the school board members Facebook and Twitter pages. The two school board members eventually blocked the parents for spamming their accounts.

In another case, Lindke v. Freed, the city manager of Port Huron, Mich., blocked a resident from his Facebook page who was critical of the citys Covid-19 restrictions.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled that the parents rights were violated in the California case, while the Sixth Circuit ruled in favor of the Michigan official.

The 2018 ruling found that Trump and one of his aides cannot point to the presidents own First Amendment interests as justification for blocking the individuals an argument his legal team had made. But in 2021, the Supreme Court threw away that ruling.

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