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How’s the First Amendment Doing in the U.S.? Recent Court Decisions Are Good News

I’ve commented frequently about the tendency of foreign governments to interfere with speech rights in pursuit of legitimate public policy objectives. Is there hate speech or terrorist material online?  Let’s require websites and social media platforms to purge it from their systems.  Is there outdated or irrelevant material online?  Let’s require search engines to delete links to this material.  Is there fake news?  Let’s require online websites to block it.  In each case, the law would go too far.  It would restrict far more speech than is necessary to achieve legitimate policy goals.

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