LIT 6855: Censorship: Cyberspace
On March 19, 1998, the Supreme Court heard its first case regarding
law in cyberspace. The ACLU appealed the US government's Communications
Decency Act as unconstitutional. Click here
for legal briefs on this case, as provided by C-Span.
Copied Readings from Capitalism and the Information Age:
- "Propaganda and Control of the Public Mind" Noam Chomsky
- "The Propaganda Model Revisited" Edward Herman
Copied Readings from High Noon on the Electronic Frontier
- "Censoring Cyberspace" Philip Elmer-Dewitt
- ACLU Letter to CMU on alt.sex Newsgroups
- "Virtual Community Standards: BBS Obscentiy Case Raises New
Legal Issues" Mike Godwin
- "Public Networks and Censorship" Jeffrey Shallit
- "Sex and the Single Sysadmin: The Risks of Carrying Graphic
Sexual Materials" Mike Godwin
- "Computer and Academic Freedom News's List of Banned
Files on College Campuses" compiled by Carl Kadie