Noah Feldman, Columnist

Sex Offenders Don't Have a Right to Facebook

North Carolina can ban them from social media, because there are other channels for free speech.

May 12, 2016 at 6:06 PM UTC

Noah Feldman is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist. A professor of law at Harvard University, he is author, most recently, of “To Be a Jew Today: A New Guide to God, Israel, and the Jewish People."

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North Carolina bans registered sex offenders from Facebook. Unsurprisingly, a sex offender wants the Supreme Court to strike down the law.1463078910622 Perhaps more surprisingly, he has support from 16 notable professors of constitutional law -- from left, right and center.

I’m loath to disagree with an all-star cast1463078927105 of colleagues that includes some of my teachers and good friends. But I think their argument goes too far.