Governments are free to establish parameters delineating the governmental purposes behind these pages and reserving the right to remove posts that are inconsistent with those purposes. Depending upon how these pages are set up, these may not even be considered government forums, even though public officials are using them as is the case with individual politicians who set up their own Facebook pages or Twitter accounts, without governmental sponsorship or funding.

Unless Pierluisi’s page is funded or sponsored by the US Congress then I suspect that not only is it not a public forum but not even a government forum at all.

Politicians are held to a different standard in fact. This is why I think Pierluisi’s staff even took the time to talk to you and respond to your emails and calls over this issue even though they really didn’t have to. I’ve worked in politics and I too have been nice to people who I knew were completely out of line with the demands they were making.

You can disagree with me but the issue under consideration here is rather simple. Does creating a facebook page for a politician change the nature of the page from private to public? I don’t think you can rationally argue that this is the case.