If 18th-century colonists were alive today, U.S. District Court Judge Roger Titus of the District of Maryland imagines that they would draw a parallel between public bulletin boards and Twitter and blogs.

Titus ruled in an opinion Dec. 15 that just as the colonists drafted the First Amendment with those public bulletin boards in mind, the same protections should be afforded to tweets and other posts online.

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