What Can be Uttered in Cyberspace?

Required:

Fred Cate, Indecency, Ignorance and Intolerance: The First Amendment and the Regulation of Electronic Expression - SCP

a. obscenity

Required:

US v. Thomas (paras.46-69) - CCP

Discretionary:

EFF Amicus Brief on US v. Thomas case - CWP

b. patently offensive but non-obscene speech

Required:

Reno v. ACLU (Supreme Court Decision) - CCP

Discretionary:

Materials on proposed ratings systems and/or V-chip (e.g. the CYBERsitter critique)

• http://www.peacefire.org/censorware/CYBERsitter/
• http://www.solidoak.com/
• http://www.wired.com/news/story/901.html

Articles/information on blocking/filtering software

• New York Times, Jeri Clausing, Internet Regulation
• Bruce Taylor and the National Law Center for Children and Families: a brief defending censorware, and a related brief.
• The Global Internet Liberty Campaign on Censorship of the 'Net
• The Censorware Project
• Complaint over library censorware filed by citizens against Loudoun Co. Virginia

Filtering Sites

• http://www.mcs.net/~sorkin/internet/.
• http://www.peacefire.org/
• http://www.filteringfacts.org/

Articles on Library Censorware

• Complaint over library censorware filed by citizens against Loudoun County, Virginia

c. harassing speech

Required:

Zeran v. AOL - CCP

Blumenthal v. Drudge

US v. Alkhabaz - CCP

Discretionary:

US v. Baker - OYO

MacKinnon Amicus Brief - OYO

Any document out there related to gender harassment or the regulation of pornography (e.g., the Jake Baker home page and other materials, theYale web page on gender, the Cyberporn Debate page, etc.) - OYO

d. defaming speech

Required:

Smith v. California - CCP

Cubby v. Compuserve - CCP

Stratton Oakmont v. Prodigy - CCP

Discretionary:

Rindos v Hardwick - CWP

It's in the Cards v. Fuschetto - OYO

EFF's critique of Stratton Oakmont - OYO

Arnold-Moore, Legal Pitfalls in Cyberspace: Defamation in Computer Networks (Australian) - OYO

e. Right of Publicity/Anonymity

Required:

Stern v. Delphi Internet Services - CCP

ACLU of Georgia v. Miller - CCP

Discretionary:

Michael Froomkin, The Internet as a Source of Regulatory Arbitrage - OYO

Mark Lemley, Rights of Attribution and Integrity in On-Line Communications - OYO

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