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The Internet vs. the First Amendment

http://jya.com/net-v-1A.htm

28 April 1999. Thanks to DN.

See related case on recent conviction of artist Carl Johnson: http://jya.com/cejfiles.htm

http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/oped/28trib.html

The New York Times, April 28, 1999

The Internet vs. the First Amendment

By LAURENCE H. TRIBE

AMBRIDGE, Mass. -- As we try to make sense of the school massacre in Littleton, Colo., we suddenly find ourselves swept up in a national debate about whether the Internet, with its dazzling array of interactive mayhem and violence, is partly to blame.

Should the Internet be available to anyone, of any age, with a computer and a telephone connection? Many who have long wanted to muzzle the Internet are making symbols of Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, who used the Internet to play violent computer games and promote their racist views.

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