Big Tech and Free Speech with John Yoo | Perspectives on Policy

Are internet companies such as Facebook and YouTube allowed to censor the content on their websites? Under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, these companies are not held liable for user-uploaded speech, allowing them to determine who to ban or restrict from their platforms. Removing this protection would only make matters worse, as it would put the responsibility for determining who and what to censor in the hands of the government. Further regulating Big Tech comes with unexpected dangers that may do more harm than good.

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Additional resources:

Watch “Trump’s Facebook Time-Out.” an episode of Matters of Policy and Politics with John Yoo and Bill Whalen. Available here: https://www.hoover.org/research/matte....

Watch “The Danger of Regulatory Capture,” on PolicyEd. Available here: https://www.policyed.org/intellection....

Read “Who Can Restrict Free Speech?” on PolicyEd. Available here: https://www.policyed.org/intellection....

Listen to “Regulating Big Tech,” with Richard Epstein via The Libertarian. Available here: https://www.hoover.org/research/liber....

Read “How to Regulate Big Tech,” by Michael Boskin via Project Syndicate. Available here: https://www.project-syndicate.org/com....

Listen to “Was Big Tech’s Censorship of Trump Unconstitutional?” with Richard Epstein via The Libertarian. Available here: https://www.hoover.org/research/was-b....

Read “No Trust-Busting Required,” by David Henderson via the Hoover Digest. Available here: https://www.hoover.org/research/no-tr....

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