Much of the debate over online speech concerns whether or not conservatives are “censored” by big tech. But there are bigger fish to fry. Even if big tech is not discriminating against conservative or ...

Can the government prevent Big Tech from censoring political and cultural voices on their platforms? Can the government regulate these platforms to compel speech the government wants to hear and to ...

Here is the Introduction; the full article is here: Regulatory constraints on the provision of truthful information to consumers about tobacco products may be having deadly consequences. Different ...

In 1964, Stanley Kubrick released a dark comedy classic titled "Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb." The title captured the absurdity of getting people to embrace the ...

In this post I look at my book's key findings on the effects of hate speech and the controversies surrounding its regulation. This analysis lays out the groundwork for understanding both the harms ...

Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis wrote nearly a century ago, “If there be time to expose through discussion, the falsehoods and fallacies, to avert the evil by the processes of education, the ...

Note: This post and all affiliated content are part of AEI’s Online Speech Project. To learn more about the project, click here. I testified this week before the ...

What do Steven Pinker, David Frum, Margaret Atwood, and Noam Chomsky have in common? They all fear a culture of shame and silence is threatening free speech. Alex Pretti played with his own life by ...

The internet needs reform. Section 230 of the Federal Communications Decency Act insulates internet companies from content liability. Its famous 26 words are that: “No provider or user of an ...