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Article: Computer Networks and the 1st Amendment; Advanced Technology Raises New Questions and Concerns About an Age-Old Issue
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- October 26, 1991
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Would you want someone monitoring your phone calls to make sure
you weren't saying anything that struck them as morally offensive or
sexually lewd? Probably not.
Would you want your child to open up a newspaper and read
graphic descriptions of sexual activities or comments that mocked
your religious beliefs or were racist? Probably not.
For telephone companies, which have been around for decades,
and newspapers, which have been around for centuries, the rules of
the game are fairly well-established. But computer and
communications technologies have created a new animal - personal
computer networks that allow personal computer users to write notes
and send them over telephone lines to ...