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Aug 05, 2022 Alex Chemerinsky
Social Media, Freedom of Speech, and the Future of our Democracy: The Golden Era of Free Speech

This book chapter appears alongside others written by influential legal scholars and U.S. senators.  It asserts that Congress created a “golden era” of free speech online by immunizing most internet platforms from internet liability for user-generated content, and pushes back against calls to amend the law.

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