Essay Archive - The First Amendment: Sex, Laws, and Cyberspace
The First Amendment: Sex, Laws, and Cyberspace
A Michigan college student posts sadistic fantasy about a classmate to
an Internet newsgroup and is charged with the threat to injure. A postal
inspector in Memphis, Tennessee downloads a pornographic image off the Internet
and the California couple who posted it is arrested for violating Tennessee's
obscenity laws. A programmer's encryption software is duplicated by someone
else and sent overseas via the Internet; the programmer is charged with illegal
export of munitions. The three defendants in these cases felt that the First
Amendment protected them, ....
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