Interestingly, this is a First Amendment case. The claim is that the City of Honolulu, engaging in Reasoned Discourse(TM) on their Facebook page, by deleting unfavorable posts, constitutes unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination. That’s very interesting, and I’m not an expert in First Amendment law, but from what I do know, I think they probably have a good chance of prevailing here.
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I think they have a good chance because it’s a government entity, clearly suppressing opinions they don’t want to be heard. A private entity would complete freedom to do that.
So, if the police dept loses the case they’ll just delete the whole page instead.