Document Type
Comment
Abstract
As the tech giants’ influence has grown, they have increasingly become arbiters of truth. This comment explores three methods for lessening their authority over digital speech. Antitrust, adjustment of the companies’ “neutral platform” status, and even creative use of First Amendment could each serve its role. At the same time, the First Amendment rights of the companies themselves pose a barrier, justifiably, to each method. To remain true to its founding ideals, America must lessen this private grip on civic discourse without expanding the government’s dominion over it.
First Page
35
Last Page
70
Recommended Citation
Clayton Calvin,
Ministries of Truth: Free Speech and the Tech Giants,
13 J. Bus. Entrepreneurship & L.
35
(2020)
Available at: https://digitalcommons.pepperdine.edu/jbel/vol13/iss1/2
