BREAKING: Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas finds social media companies do not have First Amendment right to ban protected speech

Social media companies operate private sites, like this one.

Does any actually read and understand what they are agreeing to when they hit the ' I Accept ' button?

When your media corporation becomes bigger than Ma Bell ever was, and operates all over the world, and your corporation's platform becomes the dominant way for billions of people to communicate with each other, including in countries where freedom of speech is guaranteed by law, the country club defense is no longer applicable.

As these media corporations will soon find out.

...but only now since Trump isn't in office.

Social Media companies were set up & funded by Govt
Then they were handed over to front-men--so they can pretend they're private companies
That way Govt isnt accountable to the public for censorship & surveillance tactics

Every Big Company is owned by Govt--masquerading as Private Corporations
Some are even run by ex-Military--many Westpointers
Big Pharma--Big Oil--Food Inc--Silicon Valley--Google--Amazon--FB--Twitter--all run by Govt Mafia

Of course they don't.

Can a private company discriminate based on race, sex, religion?

NO.

Why would a private company have a "right" to ban an affirmed RIGHT?

That argument is based on a fallacy and it's time it be put to death.

Last Edited by An Average American Patriot on 04/05/2021 12:02 PM

Good

The only way Justice Thomas can have a "finding" by himself is in publishing a dissent.

Which means SCOTUS ruled just the opposite. And it is the finding of the court, not the dissent of a single justice, that actually means anything in the real world such as setting precedent for future cases.

Maybe some more details, such as a link to the case in question, would be helpful and relevant.

Being a private corporation (LOL) doesn't enable you to operate outside the legal framework. Your freedom to establish Terms of Service is limited by what is legally allowed.

Also, this just happened:

This story has a little bit more contextual meat on the bones for the headline:

[link to www.politico.com (secure)]

“ 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.”

Last Edited by Larphillips on 04/05/2021 12:18 PM

Companies don't have "rights" at all.

We are living in a world where companies make rules for people and governments, which, in the Satanic pyramid, does show corporations are above Governments.

These social media clip joints are a government within a government. They water down the 1st amendment with the intimation of heaven on earth if you just let them control your reality.

No go after every single one of the son's, bankrupt the bastards

Corporations make all the laws via lobbyist. Judges are picked for siding with corporations over people more so then any other requirement. Everything is smoke and mirrors in order to hide our rights being subverted everyday in favor or corporation power the usa. It's a true Mussolini Fascist dream the merger of corporation and state in the USA. Stop believing Billionaires are going to solve anything. Eat the rich!

People seem to think being a company gives you blanket immunity and unlimited authority to be as authoritarian as you want, but I’m pretty sure basic, universal civil rights cannot be taken away if you sign an agreement.

If you get someone to sign a legal document that consents to being murdered and eaten, by doing so you still go to prison for murder regardless of any signed agreement

This is the same with the covid passports. private companies can no shut off our basic rights?

No. The Big Tech, Big Corp, Big Man own the government - not the other way around. The government is how they control us.

Ya think?

These things aren't in question... only the keepers of the laws are in question.

These douche bags just figuring this out now??

Fuck all government. We don't need it anymore.

Does this mean Jack Dorsey is going down?

Werdz are hard. LOL

This is very much a political issue of whose ox is being gored or being gored the hardest.

I didn't like owners of small bakeries being bullied by homosexual customers.

In turn, I don't like owners of big social-media companies bullying their customers.

Moreover, special legal protections have been provided by Congress to parts of Silicon Valley, allowing them to have the rights of both an aggregator and publisher.

Then, too, the tricky leftists of Beijing have been muscling Silicon Valley, which has caused them to start muscling America, particularly pro-MAGA, anti-Communist people in the US.

All of this wouldn't be such a swamp or sewer if people at the levers of power in America weren't increasingly greedy, dishonest and unethical, all topped off by a "go to hell, America!" attitude. Or leftism run amok.

It all lies in the definition of a corporation. It acts as a human in a human world but can’t be held accountable because it’s not human. It’s a bunch of BS that’s been going on for 500 years. ATT has a bigger bank account than Ireland. See the power?

Owners of Twitter, Facebook, Google, etc will have to spend their money now on hiring people to maintain content instead of pocketing it. They aren't going away. Instead of pocketing the money, they will be spending it on jobs. Before now, they were given a constant gift of not having to spend money on content policing and they, instead of being grateful for it, they used their power against us. Fuck Big Tech.

Is this a SC decision or Thomas' opinion? If only his opinion, what weight does it carry?

Incorrect. He could have authored the majority by himself.

He could have been hearing a lower court case.

He likely wouldn’t just make such a statement without it being required. It’s likely a majority or lower court decision. I haven’t looked into it, for the record.

A little too late you coward.

It’s worth clicking on the link I provided, or any other news source. A tweet isn’t sufficient.

**trying not to come off like an ass in my reply**

Last Edited by Larphillips on 04/05/2021 01:28 PM