Lawfare Archive: Kyle Langvardt on Platform Speech and the First Amendment
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🗓️ 15 July 2023
⏱️ 47 minutes
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From December 8, 2020: On Monday, Lawfare released the first paper in its "The Digital Social Contract" paper series. For each paper, Alan Rozenshtein will be doing a podcast interview with the author, and the first guest is law professor Kyle Langvardt of the University of Nebraska College of Law. His paper, "Platform Speech Governance and the First Amendment: A User-Centered Approach," examines how the First Amendment should and should not apply to the content moderation decisions of major internet platforms. Plus, Alan and Benjamin Wittes have a brief discussion to introduce the paper series as a whole.
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast contains advertising to access an ad-free version of the LawFair |
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| 0:18.2 | Also, check out LawFair's other podcast offerings, rational security, chatter, LawFair |
| 0:25.6 | no bull and the aftermath. |
| 0:39.4 | I'm Gea Coca-Toccus with an episode from the LawFair Archive for July 15, 2023. |
| 0:45.8 | This week, LawFair featured coverage of a Louisiana Judges decision to prohibit certain |
| 0:50.4 | Biden administration officials from talking to social media companies in response to |
| 0:54.8 | alleged First Amendment violations over censoring speech about the integrity of the 2020 election, |
| 1:00.4 | the COVID-19 pandemic, and more. |
| 1:03.0 | The ruling highlights First Amendment challenges when moderating content, as well as the complex |
| 1:07.7 | relationship between the federal government and social media companies. |
| 1:11.6 | For today's Archive episode, I picked an episode from December 8, 2020 in which Alan |
| 1:16.5 | Rosenstein and Benjamin Wittis sat down with Kyle Langvart to discuss how the First Amendment |
| 1:21.7 | should and should not apply to major internet platforms content moderation decisions. |
| 1:35.9 | I'm Alan Rosenstein and this is the LawFair podcast December 8, 2020. |
| 1:42.2 | Yesterday, LawFair released the first paper in its digital social contract paper series. |
| 1:47.9 | For each paper, I'll be doing a podcast interview with the author, and today, my guest is |
| 1:52.0 | Law Professor Kyle Langvart of the University of Nebraska College of Law. |
| 1:56.7 | His paper, Platform Speech Governance in the First Amendment, a user-centered approach, |
| 2:02.2 | examines how the First Amendment should and shouldn't apply to the content moderation decisions |
| 2:06.7 | of major internet platforms. |
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