This class will focus on laws and current issues relating to the regulation of content on the Internet.
Should freedom of speech on the Internet prevail over protection of the public interest? Does the public need to be protected? What is the difference between censorship and regulation?
What are the relevant public interests? Who decides?
Should there by government regulation, or reliance on technology (such as NetNanny), or parental responsibility (e.g., see Google's Family Safety Centre)?
- Class Text: Chapter 3, Internet and E-commerce Law by Fitzgerald et al
- Content Regulation in the Internet Age
- New classification review
- Online content regulation
- Australian ISPs forced to clean Internet and "mandatory web filter under fire"; and scheme ends
- Hillary Clinton on Internet Freedom
- Anti-piracy v. internet freedom
- China and "China Web Censorship Stirs Scorn", see also Wiki
- Canadian hate speech decision
- Racial Discrimination Act section 18C
- Westboro Baptist Church: article and protest and decision
- Is Cyberspace Burning?
- Lawsuit against Hate Blogger.
- Regulation of Hate Speech, by Kagan (now on the U.S. Supreme Court)