The Supreme Court of the United States found a law in North Carolina to be in violation of the First Amendment because it made it a felony for a registered sex offender "to access a commercial social networking Web site where the sex offender knows that the site permits minor children to become members or to create or maintain personal Web pages." The case was taken by a registered sex offender who had been convicted under the law after publishing a Facebook post in 2010. The Supreme Court of the United States reached its decision because the law was overly broad and not narrowly tailored to further the government's legitimate interest in preventing child abuse.