Louisiana Rev. Stats. § 14:91.5. forbids "intentional use of a social networking website by a person who is required to register as a sex offender" who had been convicted of sex crimes against minors or of video voyeurism. The statute defines social network website, and excludes:
(i) An Internet website that provides only one of the following services: photo-sharing, electronic mail, or instant messaging.
(ii) An Internet website the primary purpose of which is the facilitation of commercial transactions involving goods or services between its members or visitors.
(iii) An Internet website the primary purpose of which is the dissemination of news.
(iv) An Internet website of a governmental entity….
Yesterday's Louisiana Court of Appeal decision in State v. McMahon (written by Judge Jeff Cox and joined by Chief Judge D. Milton Moore III and Judge Frances Jones Pitman) reasoned that the Louisiana statute differed from the similar North Carolina statute struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court in Packingham v. N.C., for two reasons:
