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no bull and the aftermath.

This is the most important part of the day.

This is the most important part of the day.

These platforms may have worked the underlying physics of speech to such an extent that our

ordinary assumptions about the marketplace of ideas, the freedom of speech just no longer

work.

And I suspect that over the very long run, the societies that really make it and manage

to preserve a system of robust free speech will be societies that somehow figure out a way

to restructure or even eradicate these platforms as we know them today, ad-driven social

platforms.

Now, with that being said, if we're going to assume that we're going to continue to

live with Facebook, Twitter, these ad-driven platforms that rely on viral speech, then

I think it's still worth our while to figure out how much of the First Amendment we can

salvage and apply as a kind of rule of law.

I'm Alan Rosenstein and this is the LawFair podcast December 8, 2020.

Yesterday, LawFair released the first paper in its digital social contract paper series.

For each paper, I'll be doing a podcast interview with the author, and today, my guest is

law professor Kyle Langvart of the University of Nebraska College of Law.

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