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

in how we think about online speech.

Yeah, I mean, absolutely.

That's Jamil Jaffer.

He runs the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University.

Before that, he was a lawyer for the ACLU.

When you want to talk about free speech, he's your guy.

Part of the reason for that is that all of the big Supreme Court decisions that defined

free speech for our society were decided 50 years ago.

Almost every day, I see people tearing each other apart online about what free speech means,

especially what it means on platforms like Facebook or Twitter.

These arguments have reached a crescendo as Elon Musk moves to buy Twitter, promising

a place where speech will flourish.

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

by court cases that are older than the internet itself.

So I think part of the reason that it feels like a pivotal moment right now is that it

is a pivotal moment.

We are now building a framework that will really shape what free speech looks like for this

coming generation or generations.

There's something else happening too.

Our online fights, whether they're about politics or vaccine misinformation, feel like

outgrowth of a democracy that has been put through the ringer over the past few years.

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