Most prisoners can’t use social media directly anyway. So this proposal would prevent loved ones from using a social media account on a prisoner’s behalf.
As an ex incarcerated individual this is total bullshit. There’s no reason for this other than to further isolate a vulnerable population and silence stories of abuse.
Is that even legal??
They want to make it illegal for a family member to post on a prisoner’s social media for them, or send comments/pictures etc. posted to social media.
That sounds illegal
It’s probably a free speech lawsuit by the ACLU if it passes.
I hate TikTok but to disallow them to use it or any social platform just due to being prisoners is incredibly fucked up. America’s prison population is a huge percentage of the population. You can’t silence people this way. This is beyond evil when a large amount of prisoners have arguably been wrongly or unfairly incarcerated. Let’s not forget how many innocent black men have been arrested and killed by the police. Some states arrest people just for being homeless. We’re also seeing mass arrests of protestors right now due to the genocide and war protestor arrests are common in contemporary American history. The Supreme Court is going to have to step in on this. Wish we didn’t have such a shitty Supreme Court gang right now. Hell, they’ll probably support it. This country is ruined.
Given that there’s typically no requirement for a social media page to actually belong to the person named on the page itself I can’t imagine how this could possibly be legal or even enforced.
I could just say “this Facebook page under the name of my incarcerated brother does not belong to him. It’s my Facebook page. I just post about stories he tells me over the phone about what he’s going through. I’m under no direction from him to post anything and am posting these things of my own volition.”
Unless they want to say they somehow have jurisdiction to restrict the actions of a completely free individual this can’t possibly go anywhere.
