David Kaye is clinical professor of law and director of the International Justice Clinic at the University of California, Irvine. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and served as the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression from 2014-2020. His articles have appeared in publications such as The Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, Slate, and Foreign Affairs. He lives in Los Angeles, CA.
“An essential contribution to the discussion of free speech and its
online enemies.” —Kirkus Reviews, starred review
“Concise, elegant and necessary.” —Peter Pomerantsev, The
American Interest
“Kaye brilliantly layers analysis of the politicization of content
on platforms and the growth of efforts, mostly in Europe, to
regulate these private, mostly American companies. All the while,
Kaye makes sure readers are aware of the complexities and how free
speech may be embattled if some of these regulations are put into
effect at scale.... Insightful for readers who have tracked the
history of expression on the Internet and who enjoy connecting that
history to law and culture.” —Library Journal
“We’re at a critical juncture, in which the long-overdue techlash
is being co-opted to put more power in the hands of Big Tech, in
the guise of forcing the tech giants to take on more
responsibility. Getting this right will have implications for
decades. David Kaye’s book is crucial to understanding the tactics,
rhetoric and stakes in one of the most consequential free speech
debates in human history.” —Cory Doctorow
“Speech Police is an essential primer for understanding the
toughest global governance problem of our digital age. The future
of human rights and democracy depends on whether the exercise of
government and private power across globally networked digital
platforms can be constrained and held accountable.” —Rebecca
MacKinnon, author of Consent of the Networked: The Worldwide
Struggle for Internet Freedom
“This is an important, timely, and provocative book on a hugely
important topic. Everyone interested in free expression and social
media should (and will) read it.” —Noah Feldman, Felix
Frankfurter Professor at Harvard Law School
“David Kaye has been an outstanding UN Special Rapporteur on
freedom of expression, and in this report he pungently distils his
findings on one of the most important issues of our
time.” —Timothy Garton Ash, author of Free Speech: Ten
Principles for a Connected World
“In this accessible, urgent volume, Kaye takes us on a whirlwind
global tour of social media’s sites of impact, from on-the-ground
reports of activists in dangerous political climates to the candid
conversations behind the closed doors of corporate boardrooms and
the halls of government alike. His access allows us an
unprecedented and often unguarded view of the players at all
echelons, be they corporate scions, heads of state or
rabble-rousing resistance journalists. In all cases, Kaye unveils
the competing interests, hidden motivations, factions and forces
influencing these platforms and introduces us to the many actors
with a stake in their proliferation or restriction. All are given
an unvarnished analysis by the individual charged with advancing
the principles of human rights for a worldwide constituency.... A
must-read for anyone invested in the issues this book touches: in
other words, all of us.” —Sarah Roberts, University of
California, Los Angeles
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