SECOND INTERNATIONAL HARVARD CONFERENCE ON INTERNET & SOCIETY may 26-29, 1998
What Things Regulate Speech
By Lawrence Lessighttp://cyber.law.harvard.edu/works/lessig/what_things.pdf (Note: You must have Adobe Acrobat Reader in order to view this file)
Article Abstract:
My aim in this essay is to demonstrate the danger in alternations of the Communications Decency Act. It is to make clear the constitutional concern. My argtument in the end is that the only constitutional strategy that Congress can follow for regulating "indecency" on the net is a strategy very much like the CDA. I mean to attack "private" blocking as a solution to the "problem" of indecency, and I mean my attack to be a constitutional one.
Other articles by Lessig:
The Law of the Horse: What Cyberlaw Might Teach
Tyranny in the Infrastructure
Reading the Constitution in Cyberspace
Grounding the Virtual Magistrate
Professor Lawrence Lessig moderates the panel: "Internet Filtration: Rights to Listen, Rights to Speak, Rights to Tune Out," at the Harvard Conference on Internet & Society, May 26-29, Cambridge, MA. Lessig is Jack N. and Lillian R. Berkman Professor for Entrepreneurial Legal Studies at Harvard Law School.