April 13, 2007
A participatory marketplace
I was telling someone about this last night. I may have blogged it here before, but it bears repeating.
It is no exaggeration to conclude that the Internet has achieved, and continues to achieve, the most participatory marketplace of mass speech that this country -- and indeed the world -- has yet seen.
...the Internet deserves the broadest possible protection from government-imposed, content-based regulation.
From the Court of Appeals ruling in the challenge to the Communications Decency Act:
IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF PENNSYLVANIA
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION, et al. v. JANET RENO, Attorney General of the United States... AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOC., INC., et al. v. UNITED STATES DEP'T OF JUSTICE, et al.
Before: Sloviter, Chief Judge, United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit; Buckwalter and Dalzell, Judges, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
June 11, 1996