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This is so very needed. As Justice Clarence Thomas articulated, big tech companies should be treated as common carriers (https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/04/
by throwawaysea 5y ago
This is so very needed. As Justice Clarence Thomas articulated, big tech companies should be treated as common carriers (https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/04/clarence-thomas-is-right-about-big-tech/ https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/04/clarence-thomas-is-ri...). They are the new public square and there are many ways in which they can be legally compelled, as a UCLA Professor recently pointed out (https://reason.com/volokh/2021/07/09/the-first-amendment-and-treating-social-media-platforms-as-common-carriers/ https://reason.com/volokh/2021/07/09/the-first-amendment-and...). Political viewpoints should constitute a protected class that is protected under discrimination laws.
- defterGoose 5y agoNot to put too fine a point on it, but Clarence Thomas is clearly a partisan idiot.