Internet and Society 1999
The Technologies and Politics of Control
Readings for Week 5
The Harmful Speech Hot Potato

 

 

The Right to (Cyber)Speak Anonymously?

 

Anne W. Branscomb, Anonymity, Autonomy, and Accountability:  Challenges to the First Amendment in Cyberspace, 104 Yale L.J. 1639 (1995).

 

McIntyre v. Ohio Elections Commission, 115 S.Ct. 1511 (1995).

http://laws.findlaw.com/US/000/U10296.html

 

ICANN Registrar Accreditation Agreement, "Business Dealings with SLD Holders"

http://www.icann.org/ra-agreement-051299.html

 

Bell Atlantic Comments on Draft ICANN Proposal

http://www.icann.org/comments-mail/comment-guidelines/msg00030.html

 

Scientology:

 

Polly Sprenger, Scientology's Online Battle, Jun. 3 1999

http://www.wired.com/news/print_version/politics/story/19998.html?wnpg=all

 

Polly Sprenger, ISP Reveals Scientology Critic, Jun. 8 1999

http://www.wired.com/news/print_version/politics/story/20087.html?wnpg=all

Microsoft ID Numbers:

 

JOHN MARKOFF, When Privacy Is More Perilous Than the Lack of It, April 4, 1999

http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/04/biztech/articles/04mark.html

 

Harmful Speech:

 

Jonathan Zittrain, The Rise and Fall of Sysopdom, 10 Harv. J. L. & Tech. 495 (1997)

http://jolt.law.harvard.edu/high/articles/10hjolt495.html

 

Zeran v. America Online, Inc., 129 F.3d 327 (4^th Cir. 1997) http://laws.findlaw.com/4th/971523P.html

 

Blumenthal v. Drudge, 992 F. Supp. 44 (D.C.D.C. 1998)

http://www.techlawjournal.com/courts/drudge/80423opin.htm

 

47 U.S.C. 230  http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/47/230.text.html

 

Carl S. Kaplan, Echoes of the Railroad Age in AOL Decision, New York Times Cyber Law Journal, July 3, 1998.  http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/98/07/cyber/cyberlaw/03law.html

 

Sam Howe Verhovek, Creators of Anti-Abortion Web Site Told to Pay Millions, New York Times, February 3, 1999

http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/02/biztech/articles/03abortion.html

 

Associated Press, Abortion Foe Sues Internet Provider, June 12, 1999

 

Carl S. Kaplan, ISPs and Database Sued in Abortion Case, New York Times Cyber Law Journal, January 22, 1999 http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/01/cyber/cyberlaw/22law.html