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ACLU Sues Maine Governor for Deleting Critical Comments from His Facebook Page

HeadlineAug 09, 2017

The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a lawsuit against Maine Governor Paul LePage over his practice of deleting comments and blocking people from his official Facebook page in order to censor dissent. The ACLU says, “Free speech must be protected from government censorship on Facebook just as is it in any other public forum.”

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