Structuring a Subsidy for Local Journalism
In: 2 Journal of Free Speech Law 297 (2023)
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In: 2 Journal of Free Speech Law 297 (2023)
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In: Forthcoming, to be published in Yale Journal of Law & Technology
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In: Lawfare's Digital Social Contract Paper Series 2020
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In: George Mason Law Review, Band 26, Heft 1
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In: 44 Tenn. L. Rev. 833 (2017)
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Courts over the past two decades have reached a near consensus that computer code, along with virtually every flow of data on the Internet, is "speech" for First Amendment purposes. Today, newer information technologies such as 3D printing, synthetic biology, and digital currencies promise to remake other spheres of non-expressive economic activity in the Internet's image. The rush to claim First Amendment protections for these non-expressive but code-dependent technologies has already begun with a lawsuit claiming First Amendment privileges for the Internet distribution of 3D-printable guns. Many similar suits will surely follow, all pursuing the common dream of a future-shocked Lochner for a highly informatized and thoroughly deregulated economy. This Article argues that the theory of these lawsuits poses little genuine risk to the regulatory state. Instead, the threat is to the clarity and strength of core First Amendment principles. In theory, courts will test regulations of technologies such as digital currencies under the same strict standards that define mainstream First Amendment doctrine. But pragmatic concerns about the government's ability to regulate economic affairs will put pressure on the same courts to dilute those standards in practice. Over time, these diluted strains will find their way back to the mainstream of First Amendment litigation. The Article concludes with recommendations to mitigate the damage.
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In: Loyola University Chicago Law Journal, Band 47
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In: 20 Wash. & Lee J. Civil Rts. & Soc. Just. 405 (2014)
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In: Fordham Intellectual Property, Media & Entertainment Law Journal, Vol. XXV, No. 1, 2014
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"This interdisciplinary collection studies the Internet's effects on traditional media. Part 1 deals with the breakdown of trust in the media; Part 2 outlines the changing law of defamation and privacy; Part 3 analyzes the challenge of online content moderation; and Part 4 considers the financial challenges facing journalistic enterprises"--
In: Communications of the ACM, Jan. 2024, at 36
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In: 131 Yale L.J. Forum 717 (2022)
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