Communications Decency Act sparks a '90s-style cyber-protest

Article Abstract:

A law-student protest organized purely via the Internet demonstrates the medium's power and targets a threat to online communication, the Communications Decency Act. On Mar 14, 1996, students at 25 law schools organized by third-year New York University law student Charles J. Glasser will remain silent from 10:05 AM to 2:05 PM to illustrate the effects of censorship. In Feb President Clinton signed the law, which prohibits most discussion of abortion and the transmission of indecent or patently offensive material over the Internet, using vaguely defined community standards.

Other Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities, Free Speech & Assembly, Innovations, Political activity, Freedom of speech, Law students, Demonstrations

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Wrong way to pull plug on smut

Article Abstract:

Federal legislation such as the Senate bill sponsored by James Exon and passed June 14, 1995, cannot effectively and constitutionally address pornography on the Internet. The bill seems to violate First Amendment and privacy rights, and ignores several important facts. Pornography is already illegal in every state, cyberspace necessarily reflects all aspects of the real world, and the search for smut would have no boundaries for the government. Self-regulation, parental oversight, and new technologies offer better solutions.

Computer networks, Pornography

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Good call on Internet smut

Article Abstract:

The federal district judges who stated in American Civil Liberties Union v. Reno that the Communications Decency Act of 1995 violated freedom of speech and was also unworkable ruled correctly. Congress misperceived what the Internet was and attempted with the act to apply anachronistic legal principles to it. Parental supervision along with blocking and filtering software are the most that can be hoped for with this evolving medium and a balance between free speech and the restriction of exposure of pornography to minors.

Laws, regulations and rules, Sex in mass media, Media sex

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