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inlawrev-18042	Mckechnie, Douglas B.	Facebook Is Off-Limits? Criminalizing Bidirectional Communication via the Internet Is Prior Restraint 2.0	2013	28	.pdf	application/pdf	13058	812	59	However, that is precisely the impetus and scheme of social networking statutes; they identify a group based on the members’ previous illegal actions and criminalize a form of bidirectional communication because of the potential dangers that communication could pose. The Internet has had a revolutionary—and hitherto incomprehensible effect— on communication.217 It has transformed and democratized communication such that it transcends the corporeal boundaries associated with the human experience of expression and association.218 At no other time in history have so many people instantaneously been able to share ideas, opinions, and knowledge.219 While previous forms of mass communication have been unidirectional and concentrated in the hands of a few, the Internet has dispersed the means to express ideas and enabled their bidirectional exchange.220 The Internet has become the “new marketplace of ideas[,]”221 and bidirectional communication via the Internet has become an essential part of modern communication.222 This democratization of the channels of human communication also has facilitated the creation of previously unimaginable communities.223 Internet communities, like Internet communication, transcend geographical and physical boundaries.224 These communities are inherently voluntary associations where users can enter and leave as they wish,225 providing any number of community members with a forum to easily communicate information to others with shared interests or shared identities.226 As a result, the composition of any particular Internet-based community is unique and cannot be replicated.227	cache/inlawrev-18042.pdf	txt/inlawrev-18042.txt