“Free Speech and Private Power”
I have a short essay with this title in the Harvard Law Review Forum, responding to the Harvard Law Review’s publication of Evelyn Douek & Genevieve Lakier’s excellent new article, Lochner.com? I actually agree with much of what Douek & Lakier say, but offer a somewhat different perspective on the matter. Here’s the Introduction; I’ll likely also post excerpts from the piece in coming days.
What may and what should courts and legislatures do about private restrictions on speech? This has long been a critically significant and contested question, both before the Court and elsewhere. This Term’s cases—Moody v. NetChoice, LLC, Murthy v. Missouri, and, to a lesser degree, Lindke v. Freed—all considered the issue,
Article from Reason.com
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