Google has commissioned UCLA law professor Eugene Volokh to write a paper advocating the position that Internet search results should be treated as protected speech under the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. Volokh asserts, as part of his argument, that since human engineers make decisions about how search engines work they are in effect exerting editorial control over the results that are produced. As such, this editorial process should be protected as free speech guaranteed by the First Amendment.
Read more at Volokh's blog.
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