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Score One for Trump’s Trade Policy: Putting Online Speech Protections in Trade Deals Makes Sense

by Clark Packard

Oct 18, 2019

issues: Federal Government Affairs, Finance and Trade, Trade, Treaties and Digital Trade

originally published in reason

“These laws prevent websites from being sued for their users’ content, and they are fundamental to the United States’ preeminence in the digital space,” says Clark Packard, trade policy counsel for the R Street Institute.

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