Setting the Wayback Machine to 1995: "Cheap Speech and What It Will Do": Poor Consumers

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Setting the Wayback Machine to 1995: "Cheap Speech and What It Will Do": Poor Consumers

reason.com/volokh/2025/06/03/setting-the-wayback-machine-to-1995-cheap-speech-and-what-it-will-do-poor-consumers

[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…

This story appeared on reason.com, 2025-06-03 12:01:25.