[2][3] Post is a fellow of the Center for Democracy and Technology and the New York Law School's Institute for Information Law and Policy, an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute, and a contributor to the Volokh Conspiracy blog at The Washington Post.

[4] In the book, Post draws a parallel "between the Internet and the natural and intellectual landscape that Thomas Jefferson explored, documented, and shaped.

"[5] The book earned positive reviews from legal scholars, including Lawrence Lessig,[6] Jonathan Zittrain, and Sean Wilentz.

[3] Post also coauthored, with Paul Schiff Berman and Patricia Bellia, another book, Cyberlaw: Problems of Policy and Jurisprudence in the Information Age (West, 2007),[3][4] currently in its fourth (2011) edition.

[2] Post was a signatory to an open letter from law professors in 2014 that expressed support for the legal recognition of same-sex marriages but also expressed concern that events (such as the resignation of Mozilla CEO Brendan Eich after an outcry over a contribution that Eich had made to an anti-same-sex-marriage effort) "signal an eagerness by some supporters of same-sex marriage to punish rather than to criticize or to persuade those who disagree.