The Constitution protects your right to like whatever inane Facebook page you want to, a federal appeals court in Virginia decided this week.
The decision was spurred by the sheriff of Hampton, Virginia, who fired his employees for liking his challenger's Facebook campaign page.
U.S. Circuit Judge William Traxler wrote in the court's decision that liking a political candidate's Facebook page is "the Internet equivalent of displaying a political sign in one's front yard, which the Supreme Court has held is substantive speech."
Facebook, of course, is pleased with the decision. The social network's representatives argued before the appeals court earlier this year that likes are an essential part of communicating on the platform and should be protected as free speech.
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