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Net neutrality could become the biggest face-off on corporate speech since Citizens United

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September 28, 2015

"Others are challenging the idea that Internet providers are even capable of speech. As pipes that carry consumers' Web traffic to and fro, Internet providers are just a "conduit" for people's speech, according to a group of academics including Harvard's Lawrence Lessig and Yochai Benkler, and Stanford's Barbara van Schewick.

"It follows that when the Open Internet Rules require providers to carry others’ speech, they do not require the providers themselves to speak," they argue in their own brief. Read more » about Net neutrality could become the biggest face-off on corporate speech since Citizens United



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This article by Center for Internet and Society originally appeared on cyberlaw.stanford.edu on September 28, 2015 at 10:00AM

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