Internet Free Speech

This section covers harmful-to-minors legislation for the Internet, proposals to regulate gambling online, and more. These articles talk about local community standards for obscenity, the difficulty of enforcing content controls online, and other issues.

Web Restrictions Unlikely to Muzzle Neo-Nazi Speech, by Adam D. Thierer, Cato Daily Commentary, January 15, 2001.

Nameless in Cyberspace: Anonymity on the Internet, by Jonathan Wallace, Cato Briefing Paper, December 8, 1999.

The Urge to Regulate the Internet Strikes Again, by Tom W. Bell, Cato Daily Commentary, May 4, 1999.

Internet Gambling: Popular, Inexorable, and (Eventually) Legal, by Tom W. Bell, Policy Analysis No. 336, March 8, 1999.

COPA's friends, foes square off over regulating the Internet, by David Hudson, The Freedom Forum Online. A Freedom Forum Debate on the Child Online Protection Act, January 5, 1999.

Internet Gamling: Prohibition v. Legalization, testimony of Tom W. Bell before the National Gambling Impact Study Commission, May 21, 1998.

Internet Gambling Ban Faces Losing Odds, by Tom W. Bell, Cato Daily Commentary, January 12, 1998.

Freedom on the Internet and other Computer Networks, by Solveig Bernstein and Lawrence Gasman, Chapter 19, the Cato Handbook for the 105th Congress.

Internet Domain Names: Privatization, Comeption, and Freedom of Expression, by Milton Mueller, Cato Briefing Paper No. 33, Trademarks versus free speech in domain names, October 16, 1997.

Beyond the Communications Decency Act: Constitutional Lessons of the Internet, by Solveig Bernstein, Policy Analysis No. 262, A broad perspective on CDA I and CDA II, November 4, 1996.

New Age Comstockery: Exon vs. the Internet, by Robert Corn-Revere, Policy Analysis No. 232, June 28, 1995.