Free Speech Futures
An essay series reimagining the First Amendment in the digital age
The Knight Institute’s second essay series asked contributing authors to envision new approaches to First Amendment doctrine and to online content moderation. The eight essays in the series consider the future of free speech along two dimensions. The first set proposes new interpretations and applications of the First Amendment by courts to meet Twenty-first century pressures and challenges. The second offers new strategies and technologies to improve the quality and health of the online speech environment.
The Free Speech Futures essay series is edited by Jamal Greene, Dwight Professor of Law at Columbia Law School and the Knight Institute's second Senior Visiting Research Scholar.
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Introducing Free Speech Futures
The Knight Institute's second essay series asks leading scholars to think beyond existing First Amendment doctrine to imagine what freedom of speech could be in our current moment and our future.
By Jamal GreeneEssays and Scholarship
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A Raucous First Amendment
Imagining a future of untamed, wild, boisterous, and raucous free speech
By Jeremy Waldron -
The Free Speech Black Hole: Can the Internet Escape the Gravitational Pull of the First Amendment?
Diving into the tension between free speech, regulation, and inequality
By Mary Anne Franks -
Beyond First Amendment Lochnerism: A Political Process Approach
Exploring the First Amendment's evolving role in America's democratic political process and private commercial sphere
By Tim Wu -
Keeping the New Governors Accountable: Expanding the First Amendment Right of Access to Silicon Valley
Recommending "technological transparency" for effective self-government in the U.S.
By Victoria Baranetsky -
Probably Speech, Maybe Free: Toward a Probabilistic Understanding of Online Expression and Platform Governance
Considering the cost of applying a probablistic statistical framework to First Amendment questions on digital platforms
By Mike Ananny -
First Things First: Online Advertising Practices and Their Effects on Platform Speech
Crafting policy to combat social media's harmful business practices that encourage destructive speech
By Jeff Gary & Ashkan Soltani -
Protocols, Not Platforms: A Technological Approach to Free Speech
Altering the internet's economic and digital infrastructure to promote free speech
By Mike Masnick -
Cavalier Bot Regulation and the First Amendment's Threat Model
Balancing artificial bot babble, real human exchange, and First Amendment obligations when regulating online spaces
By Jamie Lee Williams