Justice Thomas Wants High Court Review of Section 230

The Supreme Court should review the “proper scope” of Communications Decency Act Section 230 immunity, Justice Clarence Thomas said Monday as the high court declined to review a Facebook-related sex-trafficking case. “Assuming Congress does not step in to clarify §230’s scope, we should do so in an appropriate case,” he wrote in a statement accompanying the denial of certiorari in Jane Doe v. Facebook. The case stems from a lawsuit a Facebook user filed against the platform. The plaintiff, listed as Jane Doe, was a minor when she received a friend request from an adult user, and was then lured into meeting up in person, raped, beaten and forced into sex trafficking in 2012, according to filings. The Supreme Court shouldn’t review Section 230 in this case because there are outstanding legal questions for the Texas Supreme Court, Thomas said.