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Internet Speech Will Never Go Back to Normal

• https://www.msn.com by Jack Goldsmith

Today, the platforms are proudly collaborating with one another, and following government guidance, to censor harmful information related to the coronavirus. And they are using their prodigious data-collection capacities, in coordination with federal and state governments, to improve contact tracing, quarantine enforcement, and other health measures. As Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg recently boasted, "The world has faced pandemics before, but this time we have a new superpower: the ability to gather and share data for good."

Civil-rights groups are tolerating these measures—emergency times call for emergency measures—but are also urging a swift return to normal when the virus ebbs. We need "to make sure that, when we've made it past this crisis, our country isn't transformed into a place we don't want to live," warns the American Civil Liberties Union's Jay Stanley. "Any extraordinary measures used to manage a specific crisis must not become permanent fixtures in the landscape of government intrusions into daily life," declares the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a digital-rights group.


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