Today’s burning question: Can we delete comments that we find offensive on our fire department’s Facebook page? Answer: That question is actually a heck of a lot more complicated than you might imagine… just ask the City of Beech Grove, Indiana. The city is facing a federal lawsuit filed by the ACLU of Indiana on behalf of two women who claim that their posts on the Beech Grove Police Department’s Facebook page as well as the city’s Facebook page have been deleted and the women blocked from making further posts. The suit was filed June 29, 2016 in US District Court in Indianapolis and seeks injunctive relief for what the women allege is a violation of their First Amendment rights. At the heart of the controversy is whether removing content from a governmenal entity’s social media site is a form of government censorship prohibited by the First Amendment. The basics of the dispute are relatively simple to grasp, and very well explained in the complaint: