Yeah. They'd be held to the same "standard" as print and broadcast media. No bias in those fields.

Many think removing S 230 protections will pressure social media to allow more. It's actually the opposite. It will give them complete free hand to edit and block what's on their platform. It's why they aren't the least bit scared of congress on the issue. At all.

As far as making them liable in court... maybe? But "big tech" spent over $124 million last year alone for lobbying and campaign contributions.

A $20million dollar judgement to "Tom's Barbeque" isn't even a scratch.

The best way to defeat "Big Social Media" it to get on there and get loud as hell. They can't ban everybody.

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Posted by Sentrius

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Posted on 4/5/21 at 2:43 pm to GodnCountry

Clarence Thomas and Sam Alito are the two best decisions Presidents Bush 41 and 43 has ever made and we thank them for it.

Who would've thought a Bush would appoint the most MAGA justice ever?

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Posted by CuyahogaTigerJr

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Posted on 4/5/21 at 3:00 pm to GodnCountry

It’s about time, I’ll say this I started reading the paper because I would ask my father what he as doing, he’d say I want to know what’s going on in the world, fast forward 30 years and my paper is gone, replaced with what? we have this place ( thanks again dad) but overall information not so sure.

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Posted by Auburn1968

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Posted on 4/5/21 at 3:05 pm to GodnCountry

Railroads at one point in their history tried to restrict the products they carried in order to promote products they owned or had as financial affiliates. Congress outlawed that practice and made them into common carriers.

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Posted by Wednesday

Member since Aug 2017

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Posted on 4/5/21 at 3:22 pm to StringedInstruments

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But I’m not sure what they can do about it

Call Twitter a publisher for regulating content and finding them along with the rest of their geek squad in various conspiracies to restrain trade and interfere with elections.

Well, they could if anyone on the Supreme Court had any intellectual honesty except Clarence Thomas. He better stay alive dammit.

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Posted by imjustafatkid

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Posted on 4/5/21 at 3:29 pm to GodnCountry

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Thomas’ opinion was prompted by the high court’s decision not to review an appeals court ruling that concluded Trump violated the First Amendment by blocking some Twitter users he disagreed with from replying to his posts. Thomas said the appeals court’s decision finding Trump’s account to be a public forum had some merit, but the platform’s move to shut down Trump altogether undermined that conclusion.

“It seems rather odd to say that something is a government forum when a private company has unrestricted authority to do away with it,” the justice wrote. “Any control Mr. Trump exercised over the account greatly paled in comparison to Twitter’s authority, dictated in its terms of service, to remove the account ‘at any time for any or no reason.’ Twitter exercised its authority to do exactly that.”

Nailed it.

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Posted by arcalades

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Member since Feb 2014

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Posted on 4/5/21 at 3:36 pm to JackieTreehorn

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I’m sure going to miss that man when he’s gone. My favorite justice of all time.

Thomas is awesome but he's nowhere close to being as great as Scalia was. Without Scalia we would no longer have the freedom to own guns the way we do. He bargained with Kennedy into saving our right.

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