Jed Rubenfeld

Jed Rubenfeld is the Robert R. Slaughter Professor at Yale Law School.

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Are Facebook and Google State Actors? A Reply to Alan Rozenshtein

Jed Rubenfeld Tue, Dec 10, 2019, 8:00 AM

Section 230 deliberately seeks to induce private parties to take action that would violate constitutional rights if governmental actors did it directly.

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If Facebook and Google Are State Actors, What’s Next for Content Moderation?

Jed Rubenfeld Tue, Nov 12, 2019, 8:00 AM

The pivotal question, doctrinally, turns out to be what kind of First Amendment forums Google and Facebook operate.

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Are Facebook and Google State Actors?

Jed Rubenfeld Mon, Nov 4, 2019, 8:20 AM

If Congress had done in almost any other setting what it’s done to online speech, the unconstitutionality would have been immediately apparent.

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