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Essay
Lawful but Awful? Control over Legal Speech by Platforms, Governments, and Internet Users
Daphne Keller
Daphne Keller directs the Program on Platform Regulation at Stanford’s Cyber Policy Center. Until 2015, she was Google’s Associate General Counsel.

She thanks Max Levy for his work on this Essay.

In his quixotic bid to buy and reform Twitter, Elon Musk swiftly arrived at the same place nearly every tech mogul does: he doesn’t want censorship, but he does want to be able to suppress some legal speech.