Sex, Laws and Cyberspace : Freedom and Regulation on the Frontiers of the Online Revolution
Wallace, Jonathan, Mangan, Mark
Language: English
Published by Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John, 1996
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- Title
- Sex, Laws and Cyberspace : Freedom and Regulation on the Frontiers of the Online Revolution
- Author
- Wallace, Jonathan, Mangan, Mark
- Publisher
- Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, John
- Publication year
- 1996
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0805047670
- ISBN 13
- 9780805047677
- Item weight
- 1.25 pounds
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In deciding how to regulate this global network, it must first be defined. Should the law and society treat it as a broadcast medium (like TV), a communications common carrier (like phone companies), or a print medium (like a newspaper or magazine)? Or do we need to throw out the privileges all these older media enjoy and police the online world more stringently?
The pressure on the government to regulate these electronic impulses is tremendous, and the implications of their judicial and legislative decisions will be far-reaching. From Postal Inspectors to the FBI and from civic statutes to the Senate's Communications Decency Act, the role of online watchman is up for grabs.
Sex, Laws, and Cyberspace examines these battles and includes interviews with key players in both pro- and anti-regulation camps. The authors offer a spirited defense of the freedoms now under fire, and suggest ways to monitor the 'net without stifling it.
Additional information, source listings, and updates can be found on the World Wide Web site established by the authors at www.spectacle.org/freespch/. Further discussion on the topics raised in the book will also be centered on this site.
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From the Author
"Cyberspace is a constellation of printing presses and bookstores." Since the book was published, this line from Sex, Laws and Cyberspace has become a meme travelling through electronic and print media, quoted back to us in reviews, panel discussions and interviews.
In the two years since our book appeared, the Supreme Court has confirmed unconstitutionality of the Communications Decency act and the focus has shifted to the legality of blocking software in public schools and libraries. But the battleground remains the same: will the Net be treated as the latest evolution of print media, with the same broad protection, or be restricted to the narrower scheme under which broadcast and cable are regulated? Although there have been many new developments we would love to include in a second edition, Sex, Laws and Cyberspace sets the stage for current disputes, and includes an extensive discussion of relevant conflicts in the regulation of prior media, from the printing press onwards.
Though we are very hopeful after the Supreme Court decision that the courts will continue to extend substantial protection to speech on the Net, continued vigilance is necessary. Risks include the possibility that, if media convergence occurs, the trend will be to treat the Net more like television. Its not yet time to become complacent.
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