Phillip Elmer-DeWitt was the journalist known for the 1995 Time magazine cover story on “Cyberporn.” It relied heavily on a questionable study done by graduate student Martin Rimm. The stir caused by this story and other factors was a motivation behind Congress’ passage of the Communications Decency Act, part of the Telecommunications Act of 1996. As senior technology editor in the early to mid 1990s, Elmer-DeWitt wrote many Internet-issues stories. (Author/Editor/Journalist.)
