The First Amendment Protects Speech

The internet dramatically lowered the cost of speaking for almost anyone a eugene has a great paper in which he refers to this as cheap speech. In other countries, the deluge of cheap speech has been met by new laws either restricting what people can say or placing new duties on intermediaries to filter speech. But in the united states, the first amendment prevents that. Overnment hasn't been able to make new laws to restrict what people can dowith the internet. However, the demand to censor some of this this new speech hasn't gone away. Instead, it's sort of routed around into or through other policies. And you'll see that anti trust, for instance, used really more