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Policy PostsCDT Files Supreme Court Brief In Support of Free Speech on Broadcast - Today CDT and the Progress & Freedom Foundation jointly filed a "friend of the court" brief in the U.S. Supreme Court against the FCC's regulation of "fleeting expletives," arguing that the Commission's new policy of censoring one-off curse words violates both the Constitution and administrative law. CDT also called into question the FCC's overall authority to regulate speech on broadcast, noting that dramatic changes in media and technology over the past 30 years no longer make broadcast a "unique" medium deserving less than full First Amendment protection. The brief also argues that the convergence of broadcast with the Internet and other new media, and the rise of technological tools that allow families to control what media content enters the home, eliminates the need for continued government regulation of broadcast. August 08, 2008
Share this articleCDT Files Brief Arguing Against Criminal Liability for Violating Terms-of-Service - CDT on Friday joined the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Public Citizen, and a group of 14 law professors in an "friend of the court" brief arguing that violating an online service's Terms of Service agreement isn't a criminal offense under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. The brief, submitted in the case of United States v. Lori Drew, explains that the legal theory behind the Government's indictment of Ms. Drew would effectively criminalize the actions of millions of Internet users and raise significant due process and constitutional concerns. August 04, 2008
Share this articleCDT Files Comments Opposing Censorship on Nationwide Wireless Network - CDT filed comments with the Federal Communications Commission -- on behalf of more than twenty public interest and industry groups -- against the FCC's proposal to require censorship of a free nationwide wireless Internet access network. Although CDT supports the broad goal of deploying broadband nationwide, the comments argued that such government-mandated censorship would violate the First Amendment and would create an effectively unusable service due to the large amount of content and online services that would be blocked. July 25, 2008
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