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Blown to Bits: Ch. 7Government Regulation of Speech on the Internet - correct answer ✔If a
government seeks to control speech, it can attack at several different points. It
can try to control the speaker or the speaker's ISP, by criminalizing certain
kinds of speech. But that won't work if the speaker isn't in the same country as
the listener. It can try to control the listener, by prohibiting possession of
certain kinds of materials. In the U.S., possession of copyrighted software
without an appropriate license is illegal, as is possession of other copyrighted
material with the intent to profit from redistributing it. If citizens have
reasonable privacy rights, however, it is hard for the government to know what
its citizens possess. In a society such as the U.S., where citizens have
reasonable rights of due process, one-at-a-time prosecutions for possession
are unwieldy. As a final alternative, the government can try to control the
intermediaries.
Publishing and Distributing - correct answer ✔Cubby sued CompuServe,
claiming defamation for information written by DFA , a third party, then posted
on a CompuServe bulletin board . A long legal tradition held distributors
blameless for the content of the publications they delivered. Distributors can't
be expected to have read all the books on their trucks. Grasping for a better
analogy, the court described CompuServe as "an electronic for-profit library."
Distributor or library, CompuServe was independent of DFA and couldn't be
held responsible for libelous statements in what DFA provided. The case of
Cubby v. CompuServe was settled decisively in CompuServe's favor. Cubby
might go after the source, but that wasn't CompuServe. CompuServe was a
blameless intermediary.
Communications Decency Act (CDA) - correct answer ✔In February 1996,
the Communications Decency Act, or CDA, passed almost unanimously and
was signed into law by President Clinton. The CDA made it a crime to use
"any interactive computer service to dis-
play in a manner available to a person under 18 years of age, any comment,
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