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Social-Media Oligopolists Are the New Railroad Barons. It's Time for Washington to Treat Them Accordingly

In American First-Amendment jurisprudence, Brandenburg’s name is now a byword for the test that is used in assessing the validity of laws against inflammatory speech—especially speech that can lead to the sort of hateful mob activity that played out at the US Capitol last Wednesday.

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Social-Media Oligopolists Are the New Railroad Barons. It's Time for Washington to Treat Them Accordingly
Luther Daniels Bradley 1907 comic sketch, titled “Design for a Union Station,” depicting the head of E. H. Harriman, who then controlled numerous railroad companies, including the Union Pacific, the Southern Pacific, the Saint Joseph and Grand Island, the Illinois Central, the Central of Georgia, the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, and the Wells Fargo Express Company.

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