By The FirstSupreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas hinted this week that social media companies are not protected by the First Amendment in their efforts to ban some “speech” from their platforms and websites.
BREAKING: Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas finds social media companies do not have First Amendment right to ban protected speech and that Section 230 is unconstitutional
— Jack Poso 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) April 5, 2021
Justice Thomas today on the dangers of #BigTech concentration for free speech pic.twitter.com/ldEA5YodJb
— Josh Hawley (@HawleyMO) April 5, 2021
“In assessing whether a company exercises substantial market power, what matters is whether the alternatives are comparable. For many of today’s digital platforms, nothing is,” writes Thomas.
Read his statement above.
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