Week 1 Lecture - Free Speech

Lisa Yan, August 28th, 2025

Materials

• Slides

CS 195 Readings

• Optional Motherboard Tech by Vice. The History of Twitter’s Rules. 2016.
• Optional Kate Klonick. Inside the Making of Facebook’s Supreme Court. The New Yorker. 2021.
• Optional TIME. What Is #GamerGate and Why Are Women Being Threatened About Video Games?. 2014.
• Optional Wikipedia. Gamergate.
• Optional Electronic Frontier Foundation. Section 230: Key Legal Cases.

CS H195 Readings

Attendance for Lecture 1 is optional.