from Part IV - Current Controversies
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 April 2022
A contemporary cliché holds that “the internet changed everything.” Certainly, it has had a profound and wide-ranging impact on many aspects of human experience.1 The pace, quantity, and quality of online communication might prompt a reasonable person to assume that the unique characteristics of such speech have required us to reconsider many dimensions of First Amendment theory and doctrine. After all, if the internet changed everything, then surely it must have altered substantially the way we think about free expression. It turns out, however, that things are much more complicated.
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