Former President Barack Obama hilariously portrayed himself as practically a free speech “absolutist” while also shilling for Big Tech platforms to censor content on The Verge’s Decoder podcast last week.

Obama told The Verge Editor-in-Chief Nilay Patel that Big Tech platforms should not censor what he described as “offensive” speech. However, the former president added a warning that social media platforms have always had the right to control content seemingly taking a jab at Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas who alleged that Big Tech platforms should be regulated as “common carriers.”