Killing the Messenger

The War on Social Media

AvAshutosh Bhagwat

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

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Killing the Messenger is a highly readable survey of the current political and legal wars over social media platforms. The book carefully parses attacks against social media coming from both the political left and right to demonstrate how most of these critiques are overblown or without empirical support. The work analyzes regulations directed at social media in the United States and European Union, including efforts to amend Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. It argues that many of these proposals not only raise serious free-speech concerns, but also likely have unintended and perverse public policy consequences. Killing the Messenger concludes by identifying specific regulations of social media that are justified by serious, demonstrated harms, and that can be implemented without jeopardizing the profoundly democratizing impact social media platforms have had on public discourse. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.

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Utgivningsdatum:2025-09-25
Mått:153 x 228 x 14 mm
Vikt:314 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:212
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781009547659

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Ashutosh Bhagwat is a Distinguished Professor and the Boochever and Bird Endowed Chair at the University of California, Davis School of Law. Professor Bhagwat is the author of Our Democratic First Amendment (2020) and The Myth of Rights (2010). He is also a member of the American Law Institute.

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'In response to widespread but unproven assumptions that social media is harming society, governments are regulating social media in a variety of ways. Prof. Bhagwat brings a clear-eyed sensibility to reviewing those efforts, repeatedly demonstrating how censorship 'solutions' are often worse than the problems regulators seek to redress.' Eric Goldman, Professor, Santa Clara University School of Law and Co-Director, High Tech Law Institute

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction: Social Media as the Mirror of Our Times; 1. The Conservative War: Social Media as Censors; 2. The Progressive War: Social Media as Enablers; 3. The Data War: Social Media Kills Privacy; 4. Social Media Platforms as Common Carriers; 5. Social Media as the New Gatekeepers; 6. Making Social Media Pay for Its Sins (i.e., Repeal Section 230); 7. Privacy, Big Data, and Free Speech; 8. Some Ways Forward.