Communications Decency Act: Regulation In Cyberspace
David Hembree
October 23, 1996
Dr. Willis
Being one of millions of surfers throughout the Internet, I see that
fundamental civil liberties are as important in cyberspace as they are in
traditional contexts. Cyberspace defined in Webster's Tenth Edition dictionary
is the on-line worlds of networks. The right to speak and publish using a
virtual pen has its roots in a long tradition dating back to the very founding
of democracy in this country. With the passage of the 1996 Telecommunications
Act, Congress has prepared to turn the Internet from one of the greatest
resources of cultural, social, and scientific information into the online
equivalent of a children's reading room. By invoking the overboard and vague
term "indecent" as the standard by which electronic communication should be
censored, Congress has insured that information providers seeking to avoid
criminal prosecution will close the gates on anything......
Join Now or Login to view the rest of this paper.
Approximate Word Count: 472
Approximate Pages: 2 (260 words per double-spaced page) |