First Amendment & Privacy

[https://repository.law.umich.edu/mlr/vol117/iss3/4/](https://repository.law.umich.edu/mlr/vol117/iss3/4/)

In this 2018 Michigan Law Review essay from Columbia Law professor and former Obama presidential advisor Tim Wu, Mr. Wu argues that the freedom of speech is nearing obsolescence with the ascendency of social media and other technologies that flood, restrict, or otherwise control the flow of speech and information to the public. He asserts that our ability today to say what we want in democratic societies, particularly the online public square, is largely unfettered—good news for fans of …

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