Internet censorship, should it be allowed ore does it break governmental law? ACLU Cyber-Liberties: Online Censorship in the States A court ruling granted the highest level of First Amendment protection to the Internet when the Communications Decency Act was struck down in Reno vs. ACLU in June 1997. While this is a step in protection against censorship, there are a number of state bills put forth to censor the internet against minors and others. Censoring minors …showed first 75 words of 229 total…

…showed last 75 words of 229 total…it must be regulated as its own medium and not compared to any others. Response of Law to New Technology, by Ronald B. Standler One angle on why censorship and laws for the Internet may now be necessary is because new technologies are rapidly growing and they have become too much for past laws to apply to them. Something must done to make government keep up with advances. Law of Mass Communications Dwight L. Teeter