Man appeals order for Facebook apology

An Ohio photographer says that a judge's order that he apologize to his estranged wife on his Facebook page is a violation of his free speech rights. Mark Byron of Cincinnati has appealed the order, the Cincinnati Enquirer reported. He said he was inspired by support he has been getting from around the world. "My Facebook is on fire," Byron told the newspaper Monday. "People care." Byron and his wife, Elizabeth, had a son in 2010, but their marriage soon came apart. Last year, Byron was cleared of a criminal charge of threatening his wife but got into trouble when he denounced a restraining order, his wife and, by implication, Paul Meyers, a magistrate in Hamilton County domestic relations court. "If you are an evil, vindictive woman who wants to ruin your husband's life and take your son's father away from him completely -- all you need to do is say that you're scared of your husband or domestic partner," he wrote on his Facebook page. In January, Meyers ordered Byron to apologize to his wife every day for 30 days on Facebook.