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The past few years have witnessed the phenomenal growth of perhaps the most open, egalitarian and powerful public forum history has ever known the Internet. Now, in an unsurprising reaction to its popularization, questions are arising as to what degree of free expression is to be allowed on the net...
This is not only a blow to freedom of expression, but a dangerous violation of the right to privacy. Since a simple email message can wind up on databases worldwide, the indecency bill would essentially limit people in what they can write to their friends or associates, for fear of...
Unfortunately, a recent libel case brought against Prodigy in the New York State Supreme Court resulted in a ruling that the on-line service was responsible for a comment posted by an anonymous user. Part of the rationale for the decision was that Prodigy does do some monitoring of its...
Thus, while the Prodigy decision may bolster the attempt of the indecency bill backers to hold Internet providers responsible for their users' postings, the Scientology case upholds the broader and more important theme that it's wrong to use the law to restrict freedom of expression. (In cases where neither...
Republican Representative Henry I. Hyde, who is leading the charge of the indecency brigade, ought to realize that his motivation is essentially the same as the Church of Scientology. The only ostensible difference is that the church is trying to protect its own interests, while Mr. Hyde has a much...