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http://dx.doi.org/10.17176/20230518-140256-0 https://verfassungsblog.de/contract-speech/ From Contract Law to Online Speech Governance Grochowski, Mateusz eng 2023-05-18 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Big Tech Consumer Protection Consumer Protection Law Contract Law horizontal effect Informality Platform Regulation Platforms Radical Reforms Social Media Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 For years, contract law has been a hidden protagonist in the in the discourse on platform governance. he sound of this silence is especially salient against the backdrop of recent European case law that uses the contractual toolbox to infuse social media terms of service with fundamental rights, in particular the freedom of expression. In this way, contract law has produced – somewhat counterintuitively – one of the most telling responses to the key constitutional issue of social media: how to reconcile freedom of expression as a public value with the private nature of social media platforms.