I didn't write my comment to be mean, or anything other than frank.
No, you can't be told to stop writing letters and sending faxes. Once, I was part of a group doing exactly that. 10 a day from each of us over many weeks. At one point they actually put in the newspaper, "tired of hearing about...", to which we continued, "tired of bad policy x
Then we worked to get that person out of office.
And we did.
All just civics. No worries.
None of us would have thought to phone their home, or do those things at their home. The public work was at issue. That person as a normal citizen is like any of us. No worries there too.
If your concern is a personal social media page being used to circumvent law, maybe!
IMHO, the legal test would be whether the content is about thr office, or is actually personal.
Baby photos, high school reunion, new car, cats.... personal. And they could easily make that private. I would. No reason not to really.
I do not see that as an issue at this time. Public figures have plenty of options, and the incentive to make it personal clashes with the need to be public to be reelected, etc...
I shoot add it is definitely unwise to go ahead and run for office using your personal cell phone Facebook accounts as a starting basis.
You didn't do anything wrong and don't have to apologize in response to an uncivil comment that asks if English is your first language. You could reasonably instead have clicked the timestamp on the parent comment and then the "flag" button.
I didn't write my comment to be mean, or anything other than frank.
No, you can't be told to stop writing letters and sending faxes. Once, I was part of a group doing exactly that. 10 a day from each of us over many weeks. At one point they actually put in the newspaper, "tired of hearing about...", to which we continued, "tired of bad policy x
Then we worked to get that person out of office.
And we did.
All just civics. No worries.
None of us would have thought to phone their home, or do those things at their home. The public work was at issue. That person as a normal citizen is like any of us. No worries there too.
If your concern is a personal social media page being used to circumvent law, maybe!
IMHO, the legal test would be whether the content is about thr office, or is actually personal.
Baby photos, high school reunion, new car, cats.... personal. And they could easily make that private. I would. No reason not to really.
I do not see that as an issue at this time. Public figures have plenty of options, and the incentive to make it personal clashes with the need to be public to be reelected, etc...
I shoot add it is definitely unwise to go ahead and run for office using your personal cell phone Facebook accounts as a starting basis.