online speech
Internet verbal expression
Online speech is communication that takes place on the internet—social media posts, comments, forums, videos, and other digital expression.
The term appears most often in discussions of content moderation, free speech rights, and platform governance: The new law regulates online speech differently than broadcast media.
Unlike spoken conversation, online speech persists, spreads rapidly, and exists in a legal gray zone between private expression and public discourse.
- digitalOf discrete data
- social mediaOnline content-sharing platforms
- commentsSpoken or written reactions
- postsPublished online content
- trollingProvoking reactions online
viral · hashtag · going viral · tweet · platform · moderation · content moderation · censorship · terms of service · freedom · discourse · keyboard · typing · meme · cancel · debate · cancel culture · forum
- tech policydata privacy, net neutrality, tech policy, digital rights, content moderation
- defamationslander, libel, defamation, defamatory statement, defaming
- free speechfree expression, free press, freedom of press, media freedom, journalistic freedom
online speechverbal communication
Exchange through spoken language
spoken word · direct address · table talk · oral tradition · print media
online speechdeplatforming
Removing from online platforms
internet blackout · shadowbanning · muting · self-censorship · voicelessness
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