"Viewpoint Diversity" Requirements as a New Fairness Doctrine: Why Countervailing Pressures to Protect Controversial Views Are Likely to Be Inadequate

I have an article titled "Viewpoint Diversity" Requirements as a New Fairness Doctrine forthcoming in several months in the George Mason Law Review , and I wanted to serialize a draft of it here. There is still time to edit it, so I'd love to hear people's feedback. The material below omits the footnotes (except a few that I've moved into text, marked with {}s, as I normally do when I move text within quotes); if you want to see the footnotes—or read the whole draft at once—you can read this PDF . You can see my argument about why viewpoint diversity requirements are likely to chill controversial faculty speech here ; here is a brief follow-up section to that:

[D.] Why Countervailing Pressures to Protect Controversial Views Are Likely to Be Inadequate

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