ABSTRACT
This chapter argues for the centrality of spatial ethics to expressive freedom. Rather than seeing space as a background principle, it suggests that ideas about public space have long shaped the American understanding of freedom of expression. However, that understanding has been built on assumptions about physical space and how that space exists independent of citizens. Digital technologies and virtual space challenge those assumptions. It is argued that a new understanding of the spatial ethics of freedom of expression in the digital age requires an understanding of the role citizens play in the active construction of public space and expressive freedom.
