Word: restriction
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ANYONE WHO WANTS TO CENSOR THE Internet first has to understand this about the world's largest computer network: there are no borders in cyberspace. In order to restrict local access to a picture, story or idea, you have to block it all over the world...
...first time, Congress has defeated a veto by President Clinton. Friday morning, the Senate gathered a two-thirds majority (68-30) to reject the President's last-minute veto on Tuesday night of a bill that would restrict class-action security fraud lawsuits. The Senate action, which follows a similar House vote Wednesday, assures that the securities bill will become law. Republicans had spearheaded the push for veto-proof passage because the bill limits attorney fees and can force the losing party to pay fees and costs if the suit proves frivolous. Powerful leaders of high-technology firms backed...
...Federal judge Leonie M. Brinkema, in a case brought in Virginia by the Church of Scientology, admonished the Church for using copyright law to silence on-line critics. He called this motivation "reprehensible". Essentially, what the Church had been trying to do was to use intellectual-property law to restrict the expression of those who disagreed with...
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 libel nor intellectual property violations have truly been committed...
...should or shouldn't read is as arbitrary as what the Church of Scientology thinks the public should or shouldn't read. This all assumes, of course, that those in favor of the indecency bill are honest about their intent and aren't using children as a lever to restrict expression of ideas they simply don't like. After all, a frank discussion of AIDS or homosexuality--anathema to family-values Republicans--might be rendered "indecent" and therefore banned by this bill...