Add to ORKGAs the tech giants’ influence has grown, they have increasingly become arbiters of truth. This comment explores three methods for lessening their authority over digital speech. Antitrust, adjustment of the companies’ “neutral platform” status, and even creative use of First Amendment could each serve its role. At the same time, the First Amendment rights of the companies themselves pose a barrier, justifiably, to each method. To remain true to its founding ideals, America must lessen this private grip on civic discourse without expanding the government’s dominion over it
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Silicon Valley has long been viewed as a full-throated champion of First Amendment values. The domin...
Critics contend that concentrated power in digital markets has generated threats to free speech. For...
The thesis is that the first principles of the Founding Fathers express in the Declaration give the ...
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The First Amendment prevents the government from suppressing speech, though individuals can ban, chi...
First Amendment doctrine is becoming disembodied—increasingly detached from human speakers and liste...
The intersection of censorship, free speech, and big tech is area of growing concern and interest. E...
Today’s Big Five digital platforms aren’t the first tech giants to bristle at government scrutiny. L...
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