{"id":47042,"date":"2014-11-24T22:08:10","date_gmt":"2014-11-24T22:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/wash-_post_high_court_case_tests_free_speech_limits_on_facebook\/"},"modified":"2014-11-24T22:08:10","modified_gmt":"2014-11-24T22:08:10","slug":"wash-_post_high_court_case_tests_free_speech_limits_on_facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=47042","title":{"rendered":"(Wash. Post) High court case tests free speech limits on Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About a week after Tara Elonis persuaded a judge to issue a protective order against her estranged husband, Anthony, her soon-to-be ex had this to say:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFold up your PFA [protection-from-abuse order] and put it in your pocket<\/p>\n<p>Is it thick enough to stop a bullet?\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Anthony Elonis didn\u2019t deliver the message in person, by phone or in a note. Instead, he posted it on his Facebook page, for all to see, in a prose style reminiscent of the violent, misogynistic lyrics of rap artists he admired.<\/p>\n<p>In its first examination of the limits of free speech on social media, the Supreme Court will consider next week whether, as a jury concluded, Elonis\u2019s postings constituted a \u201ctrue threat\u201d\u009d to his wife and others.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/supreme-court-case-tests-the-limits-of-free-speech-on-facebook-and-other-social-media\/2014\/11\/23\/9e54dbd8-6f67-11e4-ad12-3734c461eab6_story.html?wpmk=MK0000203\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About a week after Tara Elonis persuaded a judge to issue a protective order against her estranged husband, Anthony, her soon-to-be ex had this to say: \u201cFold up your PFA [protection-from-abuse order] and put it in your pocket Is it<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=47042\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,433,94,168,114,98,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-social-networking","category-blogging-the-internet","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-law-legal-issues","category-marriage-family","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}