What Should Be Done to Curb Big Tech? - Common Sense with Bari Weiss

A few billionaires currently have the power to decide that some Americans’ speech rights are more sacred than others. Clarence Thomas offers a remedy.

What Should Be Done to Curb Big Tech? Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas at the swearing-in ceremony for Amy Coney Barrett in October (Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images) A few billionaires currently have the power to decide that some Americans’ speech rights are more sacred than others. Clarence Thomas offers a remedy. 04.09.21 Bari Weiss is the founder and editor of The Free Press and editor-in-chief of CBS News. Do your eyes gloss over when you see the words “Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act”? Mine do. Yet the subject of Big Tech’s might — Should Facebook have…

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