Internet Censorship Threatens Freedom Of Speech

Internet Censorship Threatens Freedom of Speech

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Thesis: The vast cyber-frontier is being threatend with censorship from the government. Internet censorship should be left up to the individual not the governments discretion.

I. Censoring the Internet.
A. Clinton passes the C.D.A.
B. Our rights as Americans.
C. Exon's victory.
D. What's really online.
E. Strike to free expresson on Compuserve.

II. Where the Internet stands now.
A. Judges Panel.
B. Congress and other's opinions.
C. Background information.
D. Other opinions.

III. Solutions.
A. Family's responsibility.
B. Censorship Software.
C. Civil Rights.

Conclusion

After threatening the Communications Decency Act with a vetos of the past versions, President Bill Clinton signed the bill into law on February 8, 1996.1 Before hand, congress approved the largest change of the nation's communications laws in 62 years. One of the largest controversial topics included in the bill is the censorship of pornography, which now is a strenuously enforced crime of distributing knowingly to children under 18. The congress overwhelmingly passed the bill with a landslide 414-16 House vote and a 91-5 Senate vote.2 It seems now that the wide bill might not be what it cracked up to be, as it stands now, anyone who might upload James Joyce's Ulysses could be placed in jail for two years and have up to a $250,000 fine.3 Representatives of on-line services industries were concerned about the bill, and feared they could b...

Internet Censorship Threatens Freedom Of Speech

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