Mass Media | Self-Rating Of Internet Sites Will violate Free Speech

Despite the Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Reno v. ACLU, striking down the Communications Decency Act (CDA), online free speech continues to be embattled.

Less than a month after our Supreme Court victory in June 1997, the White House called an “Internet Summit” with industry leaders and the “pro-family” organizations that had joined the administration in championing the CDA, to pursue an industrywide system for rating and blocking online expression. But such government-pressured industry “self-regulation” could well suppress the same controversial speech and...

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