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Is Free Speech Online Just a Myth?

What Next | Daily News and Analysis

Slate Podcasts

News, News Commentary, Daily News

4.32.4K Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2022

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

A conversation with one of the smartest First Amendment lawyers in the country.


Guest: Jameel Jaffer


Host: Lizzie O'Leary





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I actually want to start by asking you if it feels to you like we're in a pivotal moment in

1:18.8

how we think about online speech. Yeah, I mean absolutely. That's Jamil Jaffer. He runs the

1:26.9

Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University. Before that, he was a lawyer for the ACLU.

1:33.6

When you want to talk about free speech, he's your guy. Part of the reason for that is that

1:38.9

all of the big Supreme Court decisions that defined free speech for our society were decided

1:48.9

50 years ago. Almost every day, I see people tearing each other apart online about what free speech

1:56.0

means, especially what it means on platforms like Facebook or Twitter. These arguments have

2:02.4

reached a crescendo. As Elon Musk moves to buy Twitter, promising a place where speech will flourish.

2:09.7

But the problem, Jamil says, is that our current understanding of free speech was shaped by court

2:15.4

cases that are older than the internet itself. So I think part of the reason that it feels like

2:22.2

a pivotal moment right now is that it is a pivotal moment. We are now building a framework that will

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