Harvey Silverglate

Mm-hmm.

And it's absolutely true.

What was true when I was five is true when I'm almost 81.

So I've lived a long time.

I've seen it all.

And I'm talking from experience as well as theory.

It's what happens when you reach your 80s.

Correct.

Especially if you're an asshole.

Well, the internet has posed a particular challenge to free speech absolutists because of some of the stuff that's on there is God awful.

But I have no different rule for freedom of speech on the internet than I have in newspapers or in lectures or in classrooms or conversations among people.

Well, you know, we've had...

We've had revolutions in the modalities of communication.

After all, newspapers were the first challenge.

Radio and television posed a new challenge.

The FCC tried, but ultimately gave up the attempt to

control obscenity, for example.

And the Supreme Court has been pretty close.

The one thing that liberal and conservative Supreme Courts, right now we're in a conservative era due to Trump nominations.

During much of my life, the Warren Court, it was William O. Douglas, Brennan, it was a liberal court.