NYT on CDA Win
John Young
jya at pipeline.com
Thu Jun 13 10:59:32 PDT 1996
6-13-96. NYP, Page One lead:
"Judges Turn Back Law To Regulate Internet Decency."
In a unanimous decision that celebrated the Internet as
"the most participatory marketplace of mass speech that
this country -- and indeed the world -- has yet seen,"
a three-judge Federal panel in Philadelphia yesterday
declared unconstitutional major parts of a new law
intended to regulate indecent material on the global
computer network and blocked the law's enforcement.
The three judges called Government attempts to regulate
content on the Internet a "profoundly repugnant" affront
to the First Amendment's guarantee of free speech.
"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," Judge Dalzell wrote.
http://pwp.usa.pipeline.com/~jya/cdawin.txt (3 articles)
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