Censorship on the Internet 3

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Five years after the first world wide web was launched at the end of 1991, The Internet has become very popular in the United States. Although President Clinton already signed the 1996 Telecommunication ActI on Thursday Feb 8, 1996, the censorship issue on the net still remains unresolved. In fact, censorship in cyberspace is unconscionable and impossible. Trying to censor the Internet its problematic because the net is an international issue, there is no standard for judging materials, and …

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…Congress approved legislation to dramatically restrict the First Amendment rights of Internet users. President Clinton signed into law Thursday Feb. 8, 1996II.) Miller v. California, 413 U.S. 15, 46 (1973), Justice Douglas, dissenting opinion.III.) The bill makes it illegal for email users to have addresses that do not include their own names.IV.) Bill Gates, Microsoft Magazine Volume 3 Issue 4 Page 54, TPD Publishing Inc., 1996V.) The way in which computers read data.VI.) Ginzburg v. United States, 383 U.S. 463, 498 (1966)