Clarence Thomas: Supreme Court Will Soon Have to Address Tech Censorship
5 Apr 2021
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas today outlined a detailed legal argument for why social media companies might need to be subject to strict rules forbidding them from denying service to users for any reason or no reason, including the possibility of designating them as common carriers which would effectively eliminate their ability to ban or censor users for legal, First Amendment protected speech.
Thomas outlined his opinion in a concurrence to reject
a case that began under the Trump administration, challenging the President’s right to block users from his Twitter feed.