Social Media, Freedom of Speech, and the Future of our Democracy

449 Pages·2022·26.954 MB·English

by  Lee C. Bollinger, Geoffrey R. Stone

Social Media, Freedom of Speech
and the Future of Our Democracy

Social Media, Freedom of
Speech and the Future of Our
Democracy
EDITED BY LEE C. BOLLINGER
and
GEOFFREY R. STONE
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgments xi
List of Contributors xiii
Opening Statement xv
Lee C. Bollinger and Geoffrey R. Stone
Regulating Harmful Speech on Social Media: The Current Legal
Landscape and Policy Proposals xxiii
Andrew J. Ceresney, Jeffrey P. Cunard,
Courtney M. Dankworth, and David A. O’Neil
PART ONE An Overview of the Problem
1. Social Media and First Amendment Fault Lines 3
David A. Strauss
2. A Deliberate Leap in the Opposite Direction: The Need to
Rethink Free Speech 17
Larry Kramer
3. The Disinformation Dilemma 41
Emily Bazelon
4. A Framework for Regulating Falsehoods 53
Cass R. Sunstein
vii
viii Contents
PART TWO REFORMING SECTION 230
5. The Free Speech Industry 65
Mary Anne Franks
6. The Golden Era of Free Speech 87
Erwin Chemerinsky and Alex Chemerinsky
7. Section 230 Reforms 103
Sheldon Whitehouse
PART THREE CONTENT MODERATION AND
THE PROBLEM OF ALGORITHMS
8. Algorithms, Affordances, and Agency 121
Renée DiResta
9. The Siren Call of Content Moderation Formalism 139
evelyn douek
10. Free Speech on Public Platforms 157
Jamal Greene
11. The Limits of Antidiscrimination Law in the Digital Public
Sphere 179
Genevieve Lakier
12. Platform Power, Online Speech, and the Search for New
Constitutional Categories 193
Nathaniel Persily
13. Strategy and Structure: Understanding Online Disinformation
and How Commitments to “Free Speech” Complicate Mitigation
Approaches 213
Kate Starbird
PART FOUR OTHER POSSIBLE REFORMS
14. To Reform Social Media, Reform Informational Capitalism 233
Jack M. Balkin
15. Follow the Money, Back to Front 255
Yochai Benkler
Contents ix
16. The First Amendment Does Not Protect Replicants 273
Lawrence Lessig
17. Social Media, Distrust, and Regulation: A Conversation 285
Newton N. Minow, Nell Minow, Martha Minow, and Mary Minow
18. Profit Over People: How to Make Big Tech Work for
Americans 301
Amy Klobuchar
Report of the Commission 315
Katherine Adams, Jelani Cobb, Martin Baron, Russ Feingold,
Lee C. Bollinger, Christina Paxson, Hillary Clinton, AND
Geoffrey R. Stone
Concluding Statement 327
Lee C. Bollinger and Geoffrey R. Stone
Notes 331
Index 393