Determining Place Regulations on the Internet: Burning the Global Village to Roast the Pig

Sutcliffe, Tami and Gossett, John S. Determining Place Regulations on the Internet: Burning the Global Village to Roast the Pig., 2007 . In Southern States Communication Association 77th Annual Convention, Louisville (US), 29 March - 1 April 2007. [Conference paper]

[thumbnail of GossettSutcliffe.pdf]
Preview
PDF
GossettSutcliffe.pdf

Download (169kB) | Preview

English abstract

Persons wishing to express ideas, as well as governments desiring to regulate aspects of communication, are confronted with a myriad of legal concerns when such expression takes place via the Internet. The problem addressed in this study is: To what extent is it possible to define place in attempts to regulate Internet expression?

Item type: Conference paper
Keywords: Internet regulation, free speech, filtering
Subjects: E. Publishing and legal issues. > EZ. None of these, but in this section.
B. Information use and sociology of information > BC. Information in society.
I. Information treatment for information services > II. Filtering.
Depositing user: Tami Sutcliffe
Date deposited: 19 May 2007
Last modified: 02 Oct 2014 12:07
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10760/9560

References

Abelson, H., Fischer, M., & Costello, J. (2005). Landmark U.S. Supreme Court decisions on communications and free expression. Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Fall Semester, 2005- MIT 6.805/6.806/STS085: Ethics and Law on the Electronic Frontier - Privacy and Transparency accessed July 3 2006 at http://swiss.csail.mit.edu/6805/readings-free-expression.html#General

ACLU. (2006). Spawn of CDA: New Internet censorship bills slither through through senate. Accessed July 4, 2006, at http://www.aclu.org/privacy/speech/15605prs19980312.html

Ashcroft v. Free Speech Coalition 535 U.S. 234 (2002).

Beeson, A. (1999). Closing plenary: Civil rights in cyberspace: How online free speech restrictions will inhibit online diversity. Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. SIGCHI: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction. New York: ACM Press.

Call, L. (1998, June). Hypertext and the postmodern pedagogy of the Enlightenment. The Journal of the Association for History and Computing, 1. Accessed May 1, 2006, at http://mcel.pacificu.edu/history/jahcI1/Call/space.html

Child Pornography Prevention Act of 1996 (CPPA), Pub. L. No. 104-208, div. A, title I, Sec. 101(a).

CIPA. (2000, December 15). Conference report on H.R. 4577 . Congressional Record. TITLE XVII—Children’s Internet Protection Act, ∫1701.

Cohen v. California, 403 U.S. 15 (1971)

Davis v. Massachusetts, 167 U.S. 43 (1897).

Elmer-Dewitt, P. (1994, Nov. 21). Censoring cyberspace. Time, Accessed June 22 at

http://www-swiss.ai.mit.edu/6805/assorted-short-pieces/time-cmu-article-nov21.html

Franda, M. (2001). Governing the Internet: The emergence of an international regime. London: Lynee Rienner.

Gossett, J. S. (1986). The Republican fence: The use of 'place' regulations at the 1984 Republican national convention. Free Speech Yearbook, 25, 36-50.

Grayned v. City of Rockford, 408 U.S. 104 (1972).

Hamilton, A. (1999). The Net out of control: A new moral panic: Censorship and sexuality. In The National Council for Civil Liberties (Ed.), Liberating cyberspace: Civil liberties, human rights and the Internet (pp. 169-186). London: Pluto Press.

Harvard Law Review Association. (1994). The message in the medium: The First Amendment on the information superhighway. Harvard Law Review, 107(5), 1062-1099.

Holmes, D. (1997). Virtual politics: Identity and community in cyberspace. London: Sage.

Holt, R. (2004). Dialogue on the Internet: Language, civil identity and computer-mediated communication. Westport, CT: Praeger.

Margolis, M. (2000). Politics as usual: The Cyberspace revolution. London: Sage.

Miller, J. H. (1995). The ethics of hypertext. Diacritics, 25(3), 847-851.

Newey, A. (1999). Freedom of expression: Censorship in private hands. In The National Council for Civil Liberties (Ed.), Liberating cyberspace: Civil liberties, human rights and the Internet (pp. 13-43). London: Pluto Press.

Perry Education Association v. Perry Local Educators’ Association, 460 U.S. 37 (1983).

Puzzanghera, J. (2006, July 11). House to vote on bill to curb online gaming. Los Angeles Times.

Robinson, J. P. (2003). Technology and tolerance. In Howard, P. (Ed.), Society Online: The Internet in Context (pp 237-253). London: Sage.

Reno v. ACLU, 521 U.S. 844 (1997).

Rimm, M. (1995) Marketing pornography on the information superhighway: A survey of 917,410 Images, descriptions, short stories, and animations downloaded 8.5 million times by consumers in over forty countries, provinces, and territories. Georgetown Law Journal, 83(5), 1849-1934.

Tedford, T. L. & Herbeck, D. A. (2005). Freedom of speech in the United States (5th ed.). State College, PA: Strata.

U.S. v. O’Brien, 391 U.S. 367 (1968).

Weinberger, D. (2003). Small pieces loosely joined: A unified theory of the Web. Cambridge, MA: Perseus Books Group.

Weitzner, D. (2006). Broken links on the Web: Local laws and the global free flow of information. International World Wide Web Conference. SIGWEB: ACM Special Interest Group on Hypertext, Hypermedia, and Web ACM: Association for Computing Machinery. Wikipedia. Content-control software. Accessed June 4, 2006 at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_filter

Zick, T. (2006). Speech and spatial tactics. Texas Law Review. 50(2): 207-217.


Downloads

Downloads per month over past year

Actions (login required)

View Item View Item