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# Will Duffield 

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Will Duffield is an adjunct scholar in the [Cato Institute’s Center for Representative Government](/center-representative-government), where he studies speech and internet governance. His research focuses on the web of government regulation and private rules that govern Americans’ speech online.

Duffield recently contributed a chapter on internet decentralization to Libertarianism.org’s [*Visions of Liberty*](https://www.libertarianism.org/books/visions-liberty), and his work has appeared at the *Cato Journal*, *Volteface*, the Legatum Institute, and the Adam Smith Institute. Prior to becoming a policy analyst, he worked at Cato as a research assistant to John Samples.

Duffield received a BA from Sarah Lawrence College and completed an MS in political theory at the London School of Economics.

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