Justice Thomas suggests regulating tech platforms like utilities
I hate falling into &quot;slippery slope&quot; arguments, but I&#x27;m gonna be &quot;that guy&quot;.<p>If we treat the tech platforms like utilities, then would that force companies like YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter to allow full-on porn on their platform? How about literal neo-Nazi stuff advocating death to millions of people? Short of deleting and reporting something outright illegal (e.g. child porn), would we be forcing these companies to take a fully &quot;hands off&quot; approach to all their content? I just worry that if there&#x27;s no content moderation, basically every platform devolves into awfulness like Gab, Parler, 8kun, or Bitchute.<p>I&#x27;m not wholly opposed to treating big tech companies like a utility but I feel I gotta ask the annoying questions. I would honestly love to be wrong about this but it does seem like the worst parts of humanity are the most vocal when there&#x27;s no moderation at all.