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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...court rulings are part of an emerging legal consensus: that speech on the Internet should get the same protection, and carry the same responsibilities, as in print. That means it will be hard but not impossible to restrict online smut. While rejecting Congress's new law, the Philadelphia judge pointed to some restrictions that might be permissible. The Portland jury verdict is a timely reminder that on the Internet, as in other media, imminent threats aren't protected by the First Amendment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cyberspeech on Trial | 2/15/1999 | See Source »

There's not much dispute that children who surf the Web these days can gain access to smut. When a child types the words dollhouse or toys into a typical search engine, the court noted, some of the links retrieved are porn sites. Trouble is, the new law is so broad it would let prosecutors go after socially useful, nonpornographic websites aimed at adults. A site operator who testified that he fears prosecution runs the Sexual Health Network, which provides information about sexuality to the disabled. And the credit-card and age-verification defenses go only so far. Both...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cyberspeech on Trial | 2/15/1999 | See Source »

...release material." And he says more details could leak out before 2000. "Whoever runs against BOB BARR in Georgia is definitely going to have all our investigative material made available to them, because this guy is a hypocrite," he says. "I've never made any bones about being a smut peddler, but I'm an honest, accurate smut peddler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Publishing: Larry's Watching, but Keeping Quiet--for Now | 2/8/1999 | See Source »

...says more details could leak out before 2000. "Whoever runs against Bob Barr in Georgia is definitely going to have all our investigative material made available to them, because this guy is a hypocrite," he says. "I've never made any bones about being a smut peddler, but I'm an honest, accurate smut peddler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Larry's Watching, but Keeping Quiet -- for Now | 2/1/1999 | See Source »

DIED. DR. MARY S. CALDERONE, 94, sex-education crusader; in Kennett Square, Pa. Amid criticism that she was a purveyor of smut, Calderone proclaimed America a "sexophobic society, afraid of the wrong things for the wrong reasons," and campaigned for responsible sex education in public schools. In 1964 she helped found the Sexuality Information and Education Council...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Nov. 2, 1998 | 11/2/1998 | See Source »

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