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After Communications Decency Act - Beeson, Rose, Volokh

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~terry Sat, Feb 21, 1998 (16:19) seed
The Supreme Court's July 1997 decision in ACLU v. Reno has been hailed as a victory for free speech and for the Net. But what are its real implications for future efforts to regulate speech in the on-line world? This panel will bring together three eminent lawyers with very different views of the case to debate its meaning and discuss what happens next. Ann Beeson, American Civil Liberties Union Lance Rose, Attorney Eugene Volokh, UCLA School of Law
~terry Wed, Mar 4, 1998 (07:08) #1
From Danielle Gallo's account: (Danielle is a student of Lorrie Cranor) Anne Beeson of the ACLU, attorney Lance Rose, and UCLA school law professor Eugene Volokh discussed the Communications Decency Act decision. Volokh) argued that although the CDA was a victory for free speech, the decision should be examined with scrutiny. Volokh felt the CDA decision suffered from poor fact finding. Volokh's documentation regarding the Reno v. ACLU decision is worth accessing (http://www.law.ucla.edu/Faculty/volokh/index.htm). Ann Beeson (http://www.aclu.org) claimed that celebration for the CDA was significantly well justified. Beeson also stated that the architecture of the Internet promotes freedom of expression, and threats to this right lie in Senator McCain's bill, ratings/private censorship (including PICS), and library filtering. One interesting example Beeson cited was a student whose individual homepage was removed after people complained about it. As expected, this raised a strong reaction from the crowd.
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