Free Speech vs. Free Ride: Navigating the Supreme Court’s Social Media Paradox
Read the latest from Digital Business Institute Fellow Marshall Van Alstyne.
The Supreme Court has an analogy problem. Are social media more like publishers, who have free speech editorial rights and liability for their decisions? Or are they more like common carriers, who serve everyone and hold no liability for what their users post? The need for content moderation inclines the Court toward the publisher analogy but this trade-off is hard, so hard that it just sent a second pair of cases back for lower courts to clarify. Read the full article.