No Kidding

Hal hfinney at shell.portal.com
Wed Jun 12 21:56:31 PDT 1996


> The absence
> of governmental regulation of Internet content has unquestionably
> produced a kind of chaos, but as one of plaintiffs' experts put
> it with such resonance at the hearing:
>                What achieved success was the very
>                chaos that the Internet is.  The
>                strength of the Internet is that
>                chaos.[23]
> 
> Just as the strength of the Internet is chaos, so the strength of
> our liberty depends upon the chaos and cacophony of the
> unfettered speech the First Amendment protects.

This is beautifully eloquent.  I hope it will be persuasive with the
Supreme Court.

Does anyone know which witness came up with the quote above?  Obviously
it resonated with the judges.

Hal






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