your questions, so please be sure to send them in to the youtube chat. rick i find the title of the book quite provocative when you call it cheap speech. what do you mean by cheap? speech? well first let me thank the commonwealth club for putting this form together. i would have hope we could by this time be doing it in person, but hopefully next time that we re together having conversation. we ll be able to do it face to face and thank you erwin as always for agreeing to be the interlocutor here. so the term cheap speech is not mine. it s a term that originates with a professor at ucla law school in eugene. volik. he wrote an article in the yale law journal back in 1995 where he was talking about the coming information revolution as in many ways quite a prescient. uh conversation a discussion in that piece. he talked about things like what we would now see as the rise of netflix and spotify. he knew that what was going to happen is we were going to move from a trickle of spe
commonwealth club for putting this form together. i would have hope we could by this time be doing it in person, but hopefully next time that we re together having conversation. we ll be able to do it face to face and thank you erwin as always for agreeing to be the interlocutor here. so the term cheap speech is not mine. it s a term that originates with a professor at ucla law school in eugene. volik. he wrote an article in the yale law journal back in 1995 where he was talking about the coming information revolution as in many ways quite a prescient. uh conversation a discussion in that piece. he talked about things like what we would now see as the rise of netflix and spotify. he knew that what was going to happen is we were going to move from a trickle of speech something like you know your few local tv and radio stations and your local newspaper and a few national newspapers to a flood of information and he knew that this was going to make intermediaries like newspapers
and then what very much to get your questions, so please be sure to send them in to the youtube chat. rick i find the title of the book quite provocative when you call it cheap speech. what do you mean by cheap? speech? well first let me thank the commonwealth club for putting this form together. i would have hope we could by this time be doing it in person, but hopefully next time that we re together having conversation. we ll be able to do it face to face and thank you erwin as always for agreeing to be the interlocutor here. so the term cheap speech is not mine. it s a term that originates with a professor at ucla law school in eugene. volik. he wrote an article in the yale law journal back in 1995 where he was talking about the coming information revolution as in many ways quite a prescient. uh conversation a discussion in that piece. he talked about things like what we would now see as the rise of netflix and spotify. he knew that what was going to happen is we were goin
what do you mean by cheap? speech? well first let me thank the commonwealth club for putting this form together. i would have hope we could by this time be doing it in person, but hopefully next time that we re together having conversation. we ll be able to do it face to face and thank you erwin as always for agreeing to be the interlocutor here. so the term cheap speech is not mine. it s a term that originates with a professor at ucla law school in eugene. volik. he wrote an article in the yale law journal back in 1995 where he was talking about the coming information revolution as in many ways quite a prescient. uh conversation a discussion in that piece. he talked about things like what we would now see as the rise of netflix and spotify. he knew that what was going to happen is we were going to move from a trickle of speech something like you know your few local tv and radio stations and your local newspaper and a few national newspapers to a flood of information and he k
Im the dean of the law school the university of California Berkeley School of law as my great pleasure to be here today with russia rick kasson. Whos the chancellors first of law and Political Science the university of california Irvine School of law. Were here because rick is written a terrific new book cheap speech how disinformation poisons are politics and how to cure it. You want to ask rick number of questions about the book and talk with them about it. And then what very much to get your questions, so please be sure to send them in to the youtube chat. Rick i find the title of the book quite provocative when you call it cheap speech. What do you mean by cheap . Speech . Well first let me thank the Commonwealth Club for putting this form together. I would have hope we could by this time be doing it in person, but hopefully next time that were together having conversation. Well be able to do it face to face and thank you erwin as always for agreeing to be the interlocutor here. So