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"Tim Wu on why 'free speech for computers' is dangerous"
Reply to: by Paul Alan Levy
While he is on your show, I hope you will ask Wu whether the fact that search engine results are not speech enjoying protection under the First Amendment means that a company that doesn’t like how it is ranked (or how other sites are ranked) can sue Google for libel, or tortious intereference with business relations, and whether US News and World Report loses its protection for its college and law school rankings if it uses computers to crunch the data? http://pubcit.typepad.com/clpblog/2012/06/its-not-computers-whose-speech-is-protected-its-their-owners.html
Reply to: by Paul Alan Levy
While he is on your show, I hope you will ask Wu whether the fact that search engine results are not speech enjoying protection under the First Amendment means that a company that doesn’t like how it is ranked (or how other sites are ranked) can sue Google for libel, or tortious intereference with business relations, and whether US News and World Report loses its protection for its college and law school rankings if it uses computers to crunch the data?
http://pubcit.typepad.com/clpblog/2012/06/its-not-computers-whose-speech-is-protected-its-their-owners.html