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What Things Regulate Speech

Lawrence Lessig
Stanford Law School

September 1997

Abstract:
We come from a tradition of free speech law that thinks primarily about how government regulates speech. We are entering a time when the greatest threat to free speech is no longer government. This essay sketches a more generl model for thinking about speech regulation, and applies it to the problem of filtering speech on the net. Some ranting against PICS, and the CDA also included.

JEL Classifications: K19

Working Paper Series

Date posted: September 30, 1997 ; Last revised: June 20, 1998

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Lessig, Lawrence, What Things Regulate Speech (September 1997). Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=33067 or doi:10.2139/ssrn.33067

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