Trying to be Decent

Reno v. ACLU, No. 96-511, decided June 26, 1997

Visit the Communications Decency Act Archives of the New York Times

Concerning Loving v. University of Oklahoma

Michael Baroni, Mother Fights Celebrity Nudes Online, New York Times, September 27, 1997

Jeri Clausing, FCC Suggests V-Chips for PCs, New York Times, October 30, 1997

Marlise Simons, Dutch Say a Sex Ring Used Infants on Internet, New York Times, July 19, 1998

The problem of the offensive address

* Please read the opinion of the Sixth Circuit in Thomas v. United States, courtesy of the ACLU.

Pamela Mendels, Hearings End in Online Pornography Case, New York Times, January 28, 1999

Maine Court Upholds Child Porn Law, New York Times, January 30, 1999

* Jamie Murphy, Australia Passes Law on Limiting Internet, New York Times, June 30, 1999

* Stephen Labaton, Net Sites Co-Opted by Pornographers, New York Times, September 23, 1999

Alice E. Marwick, To catch a predator? The MySpace moral panic, First Monday, June 2008

Blocked Circulation

* Mark Nadel, The First Amendment's Limitations on the Use of Internet Filtering in Public and School Libraries: What Content Can Librarians Exclude?, 78 Tex. L. Rev. 1117 (2000)

Jeannette Allis Bastian, Filtering the Internet in American Public Libraries: Sliding Down the Slippery Slope, First Monday, October 1997

Library Case Will Launch Simple but Powerful Argument, New York Times, January 15, 1998.

Jeri Clausing, In Rejecting Dismissal of Filtering Case, Judge Sets High Standard for Libraries, New York Times, April 9, 1998

Rebecca Fairley Raney, Bill Would Put Net Filters in California Libraries, New York Times, April 10, 1998

Pamela Mendels, Family Sues Library for Not Restricting Children's Internet Access, New York Times, June 14, 1998

* Pamela Mendels, Librarian Seeks Evidence of Complaints About Internet Misuse, New York Times, April 20, 1999

* Pamela Mendels, Michigan Law Leaves Library's Internet Filters Open to Debate, New York Times, August 6, 1999

Hate Speech

Elizabeth G. Olson, Nations Struggle With How to Control Hate on the Web, New York Times, November 24, 1997

Rebecca Fairley Raney, E-Mail Hate-Speech Case Ends in Deadlock, New York Times, November 25, 1997

Canada Tries to Bar Pro-Nazi View on Internet, New York Times, August 2, 1998

* Abortion Foe Sues Internet Provider, New York Times, June 12, 1999

* Amy Harmon, Internet Sale of Nazi Books in Germany Is Assailed, New York Times, August 9, 1999

Gambling

Jeri Clausing, Online Gambling Industry Seeks Regulation to Save Itself, New York Times, December 23, 1997

Lisa Napoli, Online Casino Unfazed by Proposed U.S. Ban, New York Times, June 1, 1998

Carl S. Kaplan, A Big Day for Football, a Big Day for Internet Gambling, New York Times, January 29, 1999

* Carl S. Kaplan, Judge in Gambling Case Takes On Sticky Issue of Jurisdiction, New York Times, August 12, 1999

Bending Our Minds

Michelle Quinn and Matt Marshall, Ex-Infoseek exec says chat room was just fantasy, San Jose Mercury News, November 30, 1999

* The Jake Baker Case Archives

Please read also: US v. Baker, 1997 U.S. App. LEXIS 1353; 1997 FED App. 0036P (6th Cir. Jan. 31, 1997); United States v. Baker, 890 F. Supp. 1375, 1381 (E.D. Mich. 1995).