I had stated earlier, in this thread, that the social media giants should be treated like public utility companies and that they are the new monopolies.
Even though the article below comes from the bowels of a Marxist news outlet, it is very illustrative of what one member of the SCOTUS is thinking with regards to reining in the protections of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act that the Fuckerbergs and Doucheybags hide behind.
Justice Thomas could not have said it better:
"It changes nothing that these platforms are not the sole means for distributing speech or information. A person always could choose to avoid the toll bridge or train and instead swim the Charles River or hike the Oregon Trail," Thomas wrote. "But 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."
The one thing that I fear is that Justice Thomas and possibly Alito are the minority viewpoint on the Court. Just like they have treated the 2nd Amendment as a back-seat right, I have a feeling that the blocking and censoring of conservative voices on social media will continue.
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas said social media companies are "sufficiently akin" to a common carrier, like a telephone company, and should be "regulated in this manner."
www.npr.org