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The Private Abridgment Of Free Speech, Erin L. Miller
The Private Abridgment Of Free Speech, Erin L. Miller
William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal
This Article challenges the orthodoxy that First Amendment speech rights can bind only the state. I argue that the primary justification for the freedom of speech is to protect fundamental interests like autonomy, democracy, and knowledge from the kind of extraordinary power over speech available to the state. If so, this justification applies with nearly equal force to any private agents with power over speech rivaling that of the state. Such a class of private agents, which I call quasi-state agents, turns out to be a live possibility once we recognize that state power is more limited than it seems …
Limitations On Corporate Speech: Protection For Shareholders Or Abridgement Of Expression?, Alan J. Meese
Limitations On Corporate Speech: Protection For Shareholders Or Abridgement Of Expression?, Alan J. Meese
William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal
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