Scott’s dissertation on internet free speech has four chapters. The first chapter is purely theoretical, concerning the nature of rights, like the right to free speech. The second chapter addresses the idea that social media platforms are “the modern public square.” The third chapter defends the idea that individuals have privacy claims against search engines. The fourth chapter argues that the free-speech entitlement to consume pornography is partially limited by the goal of gender equality.

The third chapter on privacy claims against search engines–or The Right to Be Forgotten–has recently been published in Political Philosophy. You can access it here.

Scott is also working on understanding the history of modern moral and political thought. One of his papers, on Hugo Grotius’s theory of natural law, is forthcoming in the Journal of the History of Philosophy.