(CNN) Justice Clarence Thomas suggested on Monday that Congress should consider whether laws should be updated to better regulate social media platforms that, he said, have come to have "unbridled control" over "unprecedented" amounts of speech. Thomas's stance will raise concerns from critics who point out that social media platforms have not historically been subject to such content regulation, but instead have been left to devise their policies on their own. "As Twitter made clear, the right to cut off speech lies most powerfully in the hands of private digital platforms," Thomas said. "But we think that concentrating that same power in the hands of government regulators will not necessarily solve the problems associated with social media companies." "Of course, this isn't the first time Justice Thomas has offered an idiosyncratic view of the First Amendment," Vladeck said.

Source: CNN April 05, 2021 19:52 UTC