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."
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This is what gets me, the government knows it can't do these things, so they are having businesses do it. To me, that is acting under the color of law. Justice Thomas just wrote a concurrence about government forcing big tech companies to violate first amendment rights, making the company act as part of government enforcement, meaning the first amendment violation is unconstitutional.
Now, if this same logic were to apply to companies, particularly ones that act as public accomodations, being forced by the government to enforce unlawful lock downs and other mandates, it seems Thomas may have drawn out a road map by which we might start pushing back against unconstitutional executive action.