The future of digital free speech

We the People

National Constitution Center

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🗓️ 6 July 2017

⏱️ 54 minutes

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At a live event in Los Angeles, CA, Cindy Cohn of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Judge Alex Kozinski of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and Eugene Volokh of UCLA discuss current debates about speech online. Continue today’s conversation on Facebook and Twitter using @ConstitutionCtr. We want to know what you think of the podcast! Email us at editor@constitutioncenter.org. Sign up to receive Constitution Weekly, our email roundup of constitutional news and debate. Please subscribe to We the People and our companion podcast, Live at America’s Town Hall, on iTunes, Stitcher, or your favorite podcast app. We the People is a member of Slate’s Panoply network. Check out the full roster of podcasts at Panoply.fm. Despite our congressional charter, the National Constitution Center is a private nonprofit; we receive little government support, and we rely on the generosity of people around the country who are inspired by our nonpartisan mission of constitutional debate and education. Please consider becoming a member to support our work, including this podcast. Visit constitutioncenter.org to learn more. Today’s show was edited by Jason Gregory and produced by Nicandro Iannacci. Research was provided by Lana Ulrich and Tom Donnelly. The host of We the People is Jeffrey Rosen.

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0:00.0	I'm Jeffrey Rosen, president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, and welcome to
0:07.7	We The People, a weekly show of constitutional debate.
0:11.1	The National Constitution Center is the only institution in America,
0:14.8	chartered by Congress to disseminate information about the US Constitution
0:19.2	on a nonpartisan basis.
0:21.2	On today's show we listen in into part of a great program on the future of online free speech
0:27.7	that the Constitution Center hosted on the road in beautiful Los Angeles, in partnership with the American Constitution Society, and the Federalist Society.
0:38.0	This is part of our great traveling town hall series where we're going across America with
0:43.2	aCS and FedS to promote constitutional debate.
0:47.8	The first half of the program is a one-on-one conversation between me and
0:51.5	Judge Alex Kaczynski of the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit.
0:55.6	You can find it now on the Constitution Center's YouTube channel and in coming weeks on our
0:59.8	companion podcast live at America's Town Hall.
1:03.2	And today we'll pick up with the second half
1:05.0	where Judge Kaczynski was joined by Cindy Cohn,
1:07.4	executive director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation,
1:10.7	and Eugene Volick, the Gary T Schwartz Professor of Law at UCLA for a wide-ranging discussion
1:16.7	about current issues in digital free speech.
1:20.0	Let's get started.
1:21.0	I want to jump right in.
1:23.3	The judge said that you know you don't have to be on Facebook
1:26.8	and you don't have to be on Twitter.
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