Cyberspace may give freedom of speech more muscle than the First Amendment does, says Godwin. Indeed, it may already “have become literally impossible for a government to shut people up.”
Predictor: Stering, Bruce
Prediction, in context:In a 1994 article for U.S. News & World Report, Vic Sussman interviews Mike Godwin, counsel for the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Sussman writes: ”Although the information superhighway may not yet be in place, the international data stream is already so turbulent that the world may be entering a new era. E-mail from Mike Godwin, legal counsel for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a civil liberties group, seems to confirm this. Cyberspace may give freedom of speech more muscle than the First Amendment does, says Godwin. Indeed, it may already ‘have become literally impossible for a government to shut people up.'”
Date of prediction: January 17, 1994
Topic of prediction: Controversial Issues
Subtopic: Censorship/Free Speech
Name of publication: U.S. News & World Report
Title, headline, chapter name: Pamphleteering in the Electronic Era
Quote Type: Partial quote
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