Are social media websites more like newspapers (with strong free speech rights) or common carriers (with weaker free speech rights)? Enjoining enforcement of Florida’s Internet speech law, SB 7072, a federal judge recently wrote that they’re somewhere “in the middle.” Eugene Volokh, of UCLA School of Law, and Berin Szóka, president of TechFreedom, join the show to debate whether that’s right.
For more on Eugene’s position (i.e., some aspects of social media can properly be analogized to common carriage), see Eugene’s recent post, “Social Media Platforms as Common Carriers?,” at The Volokh Conspiracy. For more on Berin’s position (i.e., social media is nothing like common carriage), check out the amicus brief TechFreedom submitted in the Florida litigation.
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#262: Another Attack on Encryption
#261: Florida’s Sharing Economy
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#259: Section 230 and Online 'Censorship'
#258: Protecting creativity with Pinterest
#257: The Future of 5G with T-Mobile
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#255 How Much Should We Worry About Deep Fakes?
#254: Bridging the Digital Divide through Internet Essentials
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#247: Seeing the Silver Lining in the Current Techlash
#246: Talking Privacy with DuckDuckGo
#245: Does the Internet Actually Need Saving?
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