Mandatory HTML Tags Would Protect Kids Online
"On the day before its summer vacation, the US Supreme Court freed Internet porn. The First Amendment, the Court held, prevents the government from regulating online speech if it can’t prove that ‘less restrictive alternatives’ – like software filters – would be less effective than regulation.
"Yet in light of other decisions affecting freedom on the Internet over the past six years, there’s something astonishing about the finding nonetheless.
"For why does the First Amendment speak so forcefully to protect pornographers yet barely whisper when librarians or film restorers complain that copyright regulates their speech, too?
Lawrence Lessig. Porn Free. Wired. September, 2004.
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