How Should Businesses Handle International Censorship Laws?
Consider the process vs. Consider substance, not process In This Article: Point 1 | Counterpoint 1 This is the first of three e-mail exchanges between two experts on Internet and free-speech law. Providing Point 1 is Derek Bambauer of the Brooklyn Law School in New York. Richard A. Epstein of the University of Chicago Law School in Illinois follows with Counterpoint 1. Summary: Bambauer argues that Google’s decision to stop complying with Chinese Internet filtering law is commendable, but that Google’s reasoning is unclear. Businesses need a consistent guiding principle because many countries, including the United States, censor the Internet in some fashion. Bambauer argues that the process by which a nation adopts a given law should determine whether the law should be obeyed, and that participatory processes produce the most legitimate laws. Point 1: Whether a filtering law should be obeyed is determined by how it is made. Dear Richard, It’s a pleasure to discuss Internet law and ethi
