Blown to Bits Chapter 7

What is DOPA?
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What is DOPA?
Deleting Online Predators Act
What did the DOPA Act enact?
It required schools, libraries, and other institutes to prevent students/children from using on-location to access social networking sites without parental supervision.
Flaws of DOPA
limited and sometimes restricted access to online encyclopedias and bookstores in public institutions
American Library Association opinions on DOPA
opposes DOPA; believes that education is the key to safe use of the Internet
The cloud
collection of devices that connect the ISPs to each other
Internet speech
Government can control speech online: can control speaker's ISPs and criminalize certain phrases (this would not work overseas can control the listener's ISP by banning the receiving certain types of online materials (privacy rights can be hard to manage this) can control intermediaries
CDA
Communications Decency Act
Why is CDA important?
It places an age restriction so that it creates a digital censorship criminalizing people 18+ for posting inappropriate information and preventing kids under 18 from viewing it
2005 Violence Against Women & the Department of Justice Reauthorization Act
An act that can charge anyone who uses the Internet or a device to first communicate then harass, abuse, threaten, or annoy as an anonymous user
Miller Test
To determine whether information is obscene, the court must consider: Whether the average person, applying contemporary community standards, would find that the work, taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest. Whether the work depicts or describes, in a patently offensive way, sexual conduct specifically defined by the applicable state law. Whether the work, taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value.
What is a "community" in cyberspace?Social aggregations that emerge from the Internet when people interact for long enough, to form webs of personal relationships in cyberspace, creating a "global village"FCCFederal Communications ComissionPurpose of FCCto regulate the content of TV and radio broadcastsElectric Frontier Foundation (EFF)The leading public advocacy group defending First Amendment and other personal rights in Cyberspace.When was the CDA ruled unconstitutional for minors?1997Child Online Protection Act (COPA)It passed into law in 1998, contained many of the key elements of the CDA, but sought to avoid the CDA's constitutional problems by narrowing it. It applied only to commercial speech, and criminalized knowingly making available to minors "material harmful to minors." A minor was deemed anyone under 17.Telecommunications Act of 1934Act that deemed a criminal offense for anyone to make a telephone call, whether or not conversation ensues, without disclosing his identity and with intent to annoy, abuse, threaten, or harass any person at the called number; this specified the 2005 Violence Against Women & the Department of Justice Reauthorization Act's annoyment category. It was challenged by The Suggestion Box which was said to send emails anonymously for reasons such as "to report sensitive information to the media" and "to send crime tips to law enforcement agencies anonymously".Given a choice between protection from personal harm and some fool's need to spout profanities, most of us would opt for safety.TRUEInternet FreedomMany organizations (like EFF) devote time and effort in maintaining the Internet's potential as a free marketplace of ideasThis whole Chapter of Internet speech and regulation is derived from the Second Amendment.FALSE; First Amendment