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Lawful but Awful? Control over Legal Speech by Platforms, Governments, and Internet Users – The University of Chicago Law Review Online

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Daphne KellerDaphne Keller directs the Program on Platform Regulation at Stanford’s Cyber Policy Center. Until 2015, she was Google’s Associate General Counsel. She thanks Max Levy for his work on this Essay. * * * In his quixotic bid to buy and reform Twitter, Elon Musk swiftly arrived at the same place nearly every tech mogul does: he doesn’t want censorship, but he does want to be able to suppress some legal speech. In a matter of weeks, Musk moved from saying that Twitter users should be “able to speak freely within the bounds of the law” to saying that Twitter should take down content that is “wrong and bad.” This rapid evolution was hardly surprising to anyone who follows online content moderation issues. A platform overrun with the legal content Twitter currently prohibits—including barely-legal pornography, scams, extreme violence, and worse—would bring public condemnation and alienate both users and advertisers. Not only would that cut into Twitter’s profits, but it would also

Daphne Keller Daphne Keller directs the Program on Platform Regulation at Stanford’s Cyber Policy Center. Until 2015, she was Google’s Associate General Counsel. She thanks Max Levy for his work on this Essay. * * * In his quixotic bid to buy and reform Twitter, Elon Musk swiftly arrived at the same place nearly every tech mogul does: he doesn’t want censorship, but he does want to be able to suppress some legal speech. In a matter of weeks, Musk moved from saying that Twitter users should be “able to speak freely within the bounds of the law” to saying that Twitter should take down content th

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