Very excited about this event:
The Program on Democracy and the Internet (PDI) at Stanford University and UCLA Law’s Safeguarding Democracy Project will host a half-day streamed conference, “Should Donald Trump Be Returned to Social Media?” Leading scholars in the areas of cyber law, election law, constitutional law, and human rights law will discuss whether former President Donald J. Trump should be restored to Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube if he declares that he is a candidate for the Presidency. Although at this moment that question is a private matter for the companies, they will be making the decision in the shadow of recent legislation in Florida and Texas (currently subject to First Amendment litigation) that would require certain social media companies to carry politicians’ speech under some circumstances. The conference will use this case study to foster a larger dialogue about the effects of deplatforming and replatforming political figures and discuss the key considerations involved in these decisions implicating free speech and safeguarding democracy.
You may download papers for the conference at this link.
Conference speakers:
- Chinmayi Arun, Yale Law School
- Guy Charles, Harvard Law School
- Renee DiResta, Stanford Internet Observatory
- evelyn douek, Stanford Law School
- Katie Fallow, Knight First Amendment Institute
- Mary Anne Franks, University of Miami Law School
- Niall Ferguson, Stanford, Hoover Institution
- Katie Harbath, Anchor Change
- Rick Hasen, UCLA School of Law
- David Kaye, UCI School of Law
- Genevieve Lakier, University of Chicago Law School
- Nathaniel Persily, Stanford Law School
- Eugene Volokh, UCLA School of Law
- Jonathan Zittrain, Harvard Law School