Stewart Richard Dalzell (born September 18, 1943) is a former United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
The Internet may fairly be regarded as a never-ending worldwide conversation. The government may not, through the , interrupt that conversation. . . As the most participatory form of mass speech yet developed, the Internet deserves the highest protection from governmental intrusion. . . The government, therefore, implicitly asks this court to limit both the amount of speech on the Internet and the availability of that speech. This argument is profoundly repugnant to First Amendment principles.
As the most participatory form of mass speech yet developed, the Internet deserves the highest protection from government intrusion.
The Internet is a far more speech-enhancing medium than print, the village green, or the mails. Because it would necessarily affect the Internet itself, the [Communications Decency Act] would necessarily reduce the speech available for adults on the medium. This is a constitutionally intolerable result.
Just as the strength of the Internet is chaos, so the strength of our liberty depends upon the chaos and cacophony of the unfettered speech the First Amendment protects.
Cutting through the acronyms and argot that littered the hearing testimony, the Internet may fairly be regarded as a never-ending worldwide conversation. The government may not, through the CDA, interrupt that conversation.
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