They’re listening Gail! Thank you and everyone for all you do. This has been a nightmare for me my family and friends. God bless.

(Bloomberg) — U.S. Supreme Court justices cast doubt on a North Carolina law that bars registered sex offenders from using Facebook, YouTube and Twitter.

Hearing arguments in Washington, a majority of the justices indicated they read the law as going too far in restricting First Amendment rights and cutting off services that have become almost indispensable to millions of Americans.

Facebook and Twitter “have become incredibly important parts of our political culture, our religious culture,” Justice Elena Kagan said. She suggested the measure might bar people from reading President Donald Trump’s Twitter messages.

Justice Anthony Kennedy said the discussions on social media are “greater than any communication you could have had even in the paradigmatic public square.”

The court is hearing an appeal from Lester Gerard Packingham, who says he is one of more than 1,000 people prosecuted under the state’s 2008 law. The North Carolina statute, one of the nation’s strictest, bars registered sex offenders from using commercial social networking sites that let minors become members.

Packingham was convicted after setting up a Facebook account under a false name and posting a message that praised God for the dismissal of a traffic ticket.

In 2002, Packingham, then 21, was indicted on two counts of statutory rape of a 13-year-old. He pleaded guilty to taking indecent liberties with a child and was put on the state’s sex-offender registry.

The two sides dispute just how far-reaching the North Carolina law is. Packingham’s lawyers say its wording is broad enough to prohibit access to nytimes.com. The state says the measure bars access only to true social-networking sites where people can link to the personal pages of other users.

The case, which the court will resolve by June, is Packingham v. North Carolina, 15-1194.

Poor explanation by the State..