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Journal of Free Speech Law: "Free Speech and Private Censors," by Prof. Larry Alexander (San Diego)

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A short piece just published at 2 Journal of Free Speech Law 17 (2022), as part of the "Non-Governmental Restrictions on Free Speech" symposium; the Abstract:

In this piece I contrast societal conditions in which free speech can flourish with those in which it is threatened by private censors. I then suggest measures that would protect free speech in the latter conditions, conditions that unfortunately prevail today.

Eugene Volokh is the Gary T. Schwartz Distinguished Professor of Law at UCLA and a Visiting Fellow (Senior Fellow starting May 2024) at the Hoover Institution (Stanford). Naturally, his posts here (like the opinions of the other bloggers) are his own, and not endorsed by any educational institution.