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Author, Fearless Speech @BoldTypeBooks (2024) & Cult of the Constitution @stanfordpress (2019) Law Professor @GWLaw. President @CCRInitiative.

May 28, 2020, 14 tweets

For those suspicious of the newfound hostility of powerful elites to Section 230, but who are interested in discussions of the real problems with the law and possibilities for meaningful reform of the tech industry, here is a thread of some of my recent work on the subject.

My 2020 @OhioStateTechLJ Distinguished Lecture on the State of Internet Law, "How the Internet Unmakes Law" moritzlaw.osu.edu/ostlj/2020/04/…

My @HarvLRev blog post with @daniellecitron, "Cyber Civil Rights in the Time of Covid-19," blog.harvardlawreview.org/cyber-civil-ri…

My 2020 forthcoming article in @UChiLegalForum with @daniellecitron, "The Internet As a Speech Machine and Other Myths Confounding Section 230 Reform" papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

My 2019 @nytimes op-ed critiquing Section 230, "Our Collective Responsibility for Mass Shootings" imes.com/2019/10/09/opi…

My remarks at the @TheJusticeDept's workshop on Section 230 in February 2020 (my panel begins around 1:43:11): justice.gov/opa/video/sect…

Chapter 4 of my 2019 book, The Cult of the Constitution, "The Cult of the Internet" sup.org/books/title/?i…

My 2019 @knightcolumbia essay, "The Free Speech Black Hole: Can The Internet Escape the Gravitational Pull of the First Amendment?" knightcolumbia.org/content/the-fr…

My 2018 @HarvLRev book review discussing the failings of tech self-regulation, "Justice Beyond Dispute" harvardlawreview.org/2018/03/justic…

My 2017 essay on Zeran v AOL, "Moral Hazard on Stilts: Zeran's Legacy" finance.yahoo.com/news/moral-haz…

Adding corrected link for my Oct 2019 @nytimes op-ed on Section 230 and collective responsibility (link is broken in thread above): nytimes.com/2019/10/09/opi…

Adding link to my Jan 2021 contribution to the @StanfordCyber Policy Series Recommendations to the Biden-Harris Administration, "Reforming Section 230 and Platform Liability," which includes a specific proposal for revising the law fsi-live.s3.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/s3fs-public/cp…

And here is the link to my Feb 2021 @lawfareblog essay, "Section 230 and the Anti-Social Contract" lawfareblog.com/section-230-an…

And here's where you can read the final version of my Dec 2020 co-authored piece with @daniellecitron, "The Internet as a Speech Machine and Other Myths Confounding Section 230 Reform" chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/cgi/viewconten…

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