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For a guy who thinks the Court shouldn't legislate, Thomas sure is keen on re-writing Section 230. Congress chose to protect online services from liability for user content. That's entirely separate from, and immaterial to, the expressiveness of their choices. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23p...
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The entire reason for Section 230 is because content hosted by the platform could be deemed expressive--otherwise why would you need to protect services from being treated as the *publisher* of user-generated content?
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and pair that with Alito who re-writes both Parler's community standards and the history of newsroom practices: bsky.app/profile/davi...
Some thoughts on Alito's concurrence in the Netchoice cases in which he disagrees with the 5+ other justices who wrote that social media platforms have 1st Amendment rights to curate user speech (& he also disagrees with ME). His opinion is poorly reasoned and ahistorical. But 2 special points:
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You're a strong man for being able to stomach writing thoughts about Alito's thoughts (charitably construed)
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and still writing the COMPLETE ANALYSIS
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I think I should send you a bottle of tequila