Setting the Wayback Machine to 1995: "Cheap Speech and What It Will Do": Shift of Control to Speakers: The Decline of Private Speech Regulations

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Setting the Wayback Machine to 1995: "Cheap Speech and What It Will Do": Shift of Control to Speakers: The Decline of Private Speech Regulations

reason.com/volokh/2025/06/02/setting-the-wayback-machine-to-1995-cheap-speech-and-what-it-will-do-shift-of-control-to-speakers-the-decline-of-private-speech-regulations

[This is an excerpt from my 1995 Yale Law Journal article "Cheap Speech and What It Will Do," written for a symposium called "Emerging Media Technology and the First Amendment.) Thirty years later, I thought I'd serialize the piece here, to see what I may have gotten right—and what I got…

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