"What Level of Protection for Internet Speech?"
Newspaper article
By: Linda Greenhouse
Date: March 24, 1997
Source: Greenhouse, Linda. "What Level of Protection for Internet Speech?" The New York Times, March 24, 1997, D5.
About the Author: Linda Greenhouse (1947–) joined the staff of The New York Times in 1968. She earned degrees from both Radcliffe and Yale Law School. Greenhouse has covered the Supreme Court for the Washington bureau of The New York Times since 1978. Greenhouse is also a panelist on PBS's Washington Week.
Introduction
President Bill Clinton signed Title V of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 into law on February 8, 1996. The common title for this law, an update of the Telecommunications Act of 1934, was the Communications Decency Act. The law was meant to protect children and families from indecent speech on the Internet, but found challengers immediately....
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