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1 online resource (449 p.) |
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Cover -- Social Media, Freedom of Speech and the Future of Our Democracy -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- List of Contributors -- Opening Statement -- Lee C. Bollinger and Geoffrey R. Stone -- Regulating Harmful Speech on Social Media: The Current Legal Landscape and Policy Proposals -- Andrew J. Ceresney, Jeffrey P. Cunard, Courtney M. Dankworth, and David A. O'Neil -- 1. Social Media and First Amendment Fault Lines -- 2. A Deliberate Leap in the Opposite Direction: The Need to Rethink Free Speech -- 3. The Disinformation Dilemma |
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4. A Framework for Regulating Falsehoods -- 5. The Free Speech Industry -- 6. The Golden Era of Free Speech -- 7. Section 230 Reforms -- 8. Algorithms, Affordances, and Agency -- 9. The Siren Call of Content Moderation Formalism -- 10. Free Speech on Public Platforms -- 11. The Limits of Antidiscrimination Law in the Digital Public Sphere -- 12. Platform Power, Online Speech, and the Search for New Constitutional Categories -- 13. Strategy and Structure: Understanding Online Disinformation and How Commitments to "Free Speech" Complicate Mitigation Approaches |
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14. To Reform Social Media, Reform Informational Capitalism -- 15. Follow the Money, Back to Front -- 16. The First Amendment Does Not Protect Replicants -- 17. Social Media, Distrust, and Regulation: A Conversation -- 18. Profit Over People: How to Make Big Tech Work for Americans -- Report of the Commission -- Katherine Adams, -- Jelani Cobb, -- Martin Baron, -- Russ Feingold, -- Lee C. Bollinger, -- Christina Paxson, -- Hillary Clinton, AND -- Geoffrey R. Stone -- Concluding Statement -- Lee C. Bollinger and Geoffrey R. Stone -- Notes -- Index |
| Summary |
One of the most fiercely debated issues of this era is what to do about ""bad"" speech--hate speech, disinformation and propaganda campaigns, and incitement of violence--on the Internet, primarily speech on social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter. In Social Media, Freedom of Speech, and the Future of our Democracy, Lee C. Bollinger and Geoffrey R. Stone have gathered an eminent cast of contributors to explore the various dimensions of this problem in the American context. They stress how difficult it is to develop remedies given that some of these forms of ""bad"" speech are ordina |
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Description based upon print version of record |
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Freedom of speech -- United States
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Social media -- United States
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Online hate speech -- United States -- Prevention
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Online hate speech -- Law and legislation -- United States
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Freedom of speech
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Online hate speech -- Law and legislation
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Social media
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United States
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Stone, Geoffrey R
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| ISBN |
9780197621110 |
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0197621112 |
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