Will Censorship Muffle Internet?
The potential fine [under the proposed Communications Decency Act] would put us out of business.
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Will Censorship Muffle Internet?
Even with such a law, youths would have no problem finding pornography on foreign computers linked to the Internet and not governed by U.S. laws. And its critics say ironies would abound if the proposal becomes a law: Commonplace passages in books, magazines and printed materials could become unlawful if distributed on the Net. Electronically transmitted transcriptions of spoken conversation or rock music or Rubens’ paintings could be prosecutable. Sex education and AIDS literature might be suspect.
Will Censorship Muffle Internet?
The proposal’s intent is to limit dissemination of pornography and other potentially offensive material over the Internet, which has an estimated 10 million or more users.
Will Censorship Muffle Internet?
[The Communications Decency Act] will create the biggest law-enforcement morass since Prohibition.
Digital Rights Endorsed: NII Panel Recommends Minor Changes in Copyright Laws
One change needed is to recognize the ability of computers to duplicate virtually any type of material, from text to sound to visual material, and to take that development into account … revised copyright law should reflect that some types of transmissions of works also could fall under copyright jurisdiction … distinctions must be made between transmission of works or performances and transmission of copies of works or performances.
Digital Rights Endorsed: NII Panel Recommends Minor Changes in Copyright Laws
Advances in technology that cause new problems also will contribute to new solutions.
20 Million Drive the Information Highway; It’s Time to Open the Internet to Every Computer User, Planners Say
There are so many networks and subnetworks on the Internet, nobody knows who’s on it. It could mean that there is no longer any meaning to international boundaries.
20 Million Drive the Information Highway; It’s Time to Open the Internet to Every Computer User, Planners Say
In all likelihood what will happen, and what we think ought to happen [is that government will provide funds to schoools] to buy access the same way you buy a telephone line. It will take 20 years to wire the whole country with fiber, and you could do this very soon.
20 Million Drive the Information Highway; It’s Time to Open the Internet to Every Computer User, Planners Say
You have to imagine that this kind of reaching out from anywhere in the world to anywhere else in the world, at your fingertips, has got to change the way we think about our world … It will become critical for everyone to be connected. Anyone who doesn’t will essentially be isolated from the world.
Building the Information Marketplace
There is no question that the rest of the world will build their NIIs. Some may even build them faster than we do if we keep going at our current rate. Eventually, these NIIs will link up with one another as surely as the world’s telephone and air transportation systems have done. These global information links will benefit the world as much as international transportation and telephone communication do today.