Monster Essays - The First Amendment: Sex, Laws, and Cyberspace
The First Amendment: Sex, Laws, and Cyberspace
A Michigan college student posts sadistic fantasy about a classmate to
an Internet newsgroup and is charged with the threat to injure. A postal
inspector in Memphis, Tennessee downloads a pornographic image off the Internet
and the California couple who posted it is arrested for violating Tennessee's
obscenity laws. A programmer's encryption software is duplicated by someone
else and sent overseas via the Internet; the programmer is charged with illegal
export of munitions. The three defendants in these cases felt that the First
Amendment protected them, but it was not the case.
Sex, Laws, ....
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