President Bollinger, in addition to being our illustrious president and Donald Trump's favorite person on earth, is a renowned scholar of the first amendment. So when he speaks on the topic of free expression, people listen.
Bollinger did just that in the December issue of Foreign Policy , where he writes about defending free speech in the digital age. In his article, the entirety of which is well worth your time, Bollinger lays out three changes that "distinguish this era's tensions surrounding global free expression from the battles of the past."
In broad strokes, the first change is that modern life, especially when it comes to economics and the "global marketplace," depends on the free exchange of information, and the second change is that the "very essence of modern life is the opportunity for people everywhere to speak, hear, persuade, change their minds, know what others are thinking, and think for themselves."
Both of these dynamics are facinating and well developed by Bollinger, but perhaps the most interesting change to circumstances of the free speech debate is the new legal abilities available to protect free speech world wide have begun to evolve.
