Internet and Society 1999
The Technologies and Politics of Control
Readings for Week 11
Law, Code & Content:
Filtering, Porn & Hate

The Communications Decency Act, CDA

Skim - Reno v. ACLU, Docket 96-511 (1997) - http://caselaw.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=US&vol=000&invol=96-511

Oral Argument, Reno v. ACLU, (March 19, 1997) - http://oyez.nwu.edu/cases/cases.cgi?case_id=842&command=show

Preliminary Injuction in, ACLU v. Reno II, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania, Case No. 98-5591 (February 1, 1999)

Franks Filtering Amendment to the Juvenile Justice Bill, June 17, 1999 - http://www.ifea.net/franks_amend_6_17_99.html

Memorandum Opinion, Mainstream Loudoun v. Loudoun County Library, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Virginia, Case No. 97-2049-A. (November 23, 1998) - http://www.techlawjournal.com/courts/loudon/81123op.htm

Mainstream Loudoun v. Loudoun County Library, (Tech Law Journal Summary) - http://www.techlawjournal.com/courts/loudon/Default.htm

The Platform for Internet Content Selection (PICS)

W3C, Platform for Internet Content Selection - http://www.w3.org/PICS/

Paul Resnick & James Miller, PICS: Internet Access Controls Without Censorship, 39 Communications of the ACM, 87 (1996) - http://www.w3.org/PICS/iacwcv2.htm

Lawrence Lessig, Tyranny of the Infrastructure, Wired 5.07 (July 1997) - http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/5.07/cyber_rights_pr.html

Pro

SurfWatch Core Category Criteria - http://www1.surfwatch.com/about/body-filter-core.html

Cyber Patrol Fact Sheet - http://www.cyberpatrol.com/fact.htm

The Plain Facts About Internet Content Filtering, Cyber Sitter - http://www.cybersitter.com/cybfacts.htm

Frequently Asked Questions about Dotsafe Internet Access - http://www.dotsafe.net/what_we_do/faq.html

HateFilter Frequently Asked Questions - http://www.adl.org/hate-patrol/info/HateFilterFAQ.html

Declan McCullagh, Banned in Boston, The Netly News, February 27, 1997

Brock N. Meeks & Declan McCullagh, Jacking in from the "Keys to the Kingdom" Port, CyberWire Dispatch (1996) - http://www.eff.org/pub/Publications/Declan_McCullagh/cwd.keys.to.the.kingdom.0796.article