Internet regulation: Not a matter of freedom of speech, but freedom to conduct business

Internet regulation should be framed not as a matter of freedom of speech, but as a matter of freedom to conduct a business, they argue. The metaphor is now misleading The metaphor was used for the first time in 1919 in a dissenting opinion of Judge Oliver Wendell Holmes on a Supreme Court decision concerning the expression of anti-war ideas and implies the fact that, when there is competition in a free market of ideas, even the worst of them (and therefore also the false ones) should be admitted, in the certainty that the best ones (and ultimately the truth) would still prevail.

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