Technology developing through the years as well as online social media has heavily effected the First Amendment. Likewise, we have seen the First Amendments effect have a greater impact than ever before with the age of technology. The First Amendment has such a widespread effect over the United States that Facebook likes and Twitter posts are actually protected speech. The way free speech standards are being shaped over the past couple decades as a result of technology clashing with modern privacy concerns has even caused colleges to create safe places where students can go to avoid arguments. The First Amendment in the digital age has come to amplify everything: it amplifies expression through making speech more powerful and sometimes more impact-fully hurtful.
Recently, Facebook has undergone data scandals for advertisers and third parties spying on peoples messages and tracking their posts (their speech). They then used this to take advantage of that speech by throwing spam at the advertiser and pushing paid programs upon them, which was found to be illegal. This raises the question over how one's freedom of speech can be dangerous and taken advantage of. So, in the future, will there be changing laws that protect you while you're expressing your speech on the social media platform? With the rapidly changing era we live in of the digital age, the First Amendment's reach is being ever expanded and molded into ways that protects users from being taken advantage of while expressing their constitutional rights.
http://www.govtech.com/data/Can-the-First-Amendment-Survive-the-Digital-Age.html
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