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Weighing Costs and Benefi ts the last chapter presented a proposal for transnational regulation of social media to protect Western democracies from Chinese and Russian information warfare. This chapter contends that, on balance, the benefi ts of the proposed transnational regulatory regime outweigh the costs. The analysis assumes that the proposed system-if implemented into U.S. law by means of appropriate legislation-would be constitutionally valid.Two key assumptions underlie the cost-benefi t analysis in this chapter.First, I assume that the problem of democratic decay is a signifi cant problem. Chapter 1 defended that assumption, but it is impossible to prove the truth of that claim. Readers who do not accept the fi rst assumption would likely conclude that the costs of the proposed transnational regulatory system outweigh the benefi ts. Second, I assume that foreign threats to liberal democracy-and, in particular, the threats posed by China and Russia-are signifi cant factors contributing to the problem of democratic decay. Previous chapters defended that assumption. It bears emphasis that many causal factors contribute to the problem of democratic decay and there is no good w

Publisher

Stanford University Press

Published

2022

Language

EN