Internet Free Speech
The ACLU's vision of an uncensored Internet was clearly shared by the U.S. Supreme Court when it declared, in Reno v. ACLU, the Internet to be a free speech zone, deserving at least as much First Amendment protection as that afforded to books, newspapers and magazines. The government, the court said, can no more restrict a person's access to words or images on the Internet than it could be allowed to snatch a book out of a reader's hands in the library, or cover over a statue of a nude in a museum. More
Resources
Private Companies Shape What You Say and Read Online (blog 2011)
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We Must Combat Child Pornography Without Abandoning Online Privacy (blog 2011)
ACLU Appeals Decision Allowing Government to Keep Court Processes Secret (blog 2011)
DHS Tries to Subtract Mozilla Add-On (blog 2011)
Join Our Letter To Internet Companies (blog 2011)
House To Hold Hearings On Net Neutrality This Week (press 2011)
Victory! North Carolina Settles ACLU/Amazon Privacy Case (blog 2011)
It's Your Move, Congress: Stand Up for Net Neutrality (blog 2010)
FCC Approves Flawed Net Neutrality Rule (press 2010)
