October 24, 2012 2:17PM # Free Speech Week, Day 3 By [Tim Lynch](https://www.cato.org/people/tim-lynch) --- SHARE Today, check out Cato work related to the defense of electronic speech: - “[Regulation of Electronic Speech and Commerce](https://www.cato.org/pubs/handbook/hb111/hb111-30.pdf),” Chapter 30, *Cato Handbook for Policymakers, 7th Edition* (2009). - “[The Internet Is Not Government’s to Regulate](https://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/internet-is-not-governments-regulate)” by Jim Harper–This article appeared in *Orange County Register* on January 19, 2012. - The Cato Institute, TechFreedom, and the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s Capitol Hill Briefing: [Unintended Consequences of the Rogue Website Crackdown: SOPA, PIPA and OPEN Legislation](https://www.cato.org/event.php?eventid=8841) - Included a panel of leading technology policy experts who will discuss the implications of proposed “rogue website” legislation for entrepreneurship, free speech, Internet governance, and holders of copyrights and trademarks. - [Julian Sanchez comments on how SOPA, Protect IP acts which could seriously censor or damage the internet and free speech](https://www.cato.org/multimedia/daily-podcast/citation-needed-sopa-protect-ip-advocates). - “[We’re Not Censoring YOU—Just Your Computer!](https://www.cato.org/were-not-censoring-you-just-your-computer/),” Posted by Julian Sanchez, June 20, 2012 ##### Related Tags [Constitutional Law](https://www.cato.org/constitutional-law), [Technology and Privacy](https://www.cato.org/technology-privacy), [Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies](https://www.cato.org/robert-levy-center-constitutional-studies) [![Creative Commons License](/build/cato_2020/images/creative-commons.svg)](http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/) This work is licensed under a [Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/).