Setting the Wayback Machine to 1995: "Cheap Speech and What It Will Do"

Setting the Wayback Machine to 1995: "Cheap Speech and What It Will Do"

In Fall 1994, I wrote an article called "Cheap Speech and What It Will Do," which became my first publication as a law professor. It was for a Yale Law Journal symposium called "Emerging Media Technology and the First Amendment," which was about the then-emerging technology of the Internet. (Fun fact: Back then, we would hammer out our manuscripts with chisels on clay tablets.) Thirty years later, I thought I'd serialize the piece here, to see w…