So to Speak podcast: Free speech in the digital age with Jameel Jaffer

So to Speak podcast: Free speech in the digital age with Jameel Jaffer

On today’s episode of So to Speak: The Free Speech Podcast, we speak with Jameel Jaffer, executive director of the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University.

Jaffer and the Knight Institute seek to defend “the freedoms of speech and the press in the digital era through strategic litigation, research, and public education.”

Show notes:

• Podcast transcript
• Knight First Amendment Institute website
• Clapper v. Amnesty International, the U.S. Supreme Court case Jaffer argued challenging the constitutionality of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.
• So to Speak podcast with Glenn Greenwald on free speech and privacy
• Knight Institute v. Trump, the Knight Institute’s legal challenge to President Donald Trump’s blocking of critics on Twitter.
• “Knight Institute calls on Facebook to lift restrictions on digital journalism and research”

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