Other nations may follow our lead, but the inability to ensure that such will be the case is no reason for reticence in putting forth our own views of how the cybercommunities should be governed … Cyberspaces are populated by people-to-people communication – including person-to-person, some-to-some, and many-to-many. Computer-mediated communication offers an environment unlike any heretofore made available, with the potential for genuinely interactive and cooperative innovation. To saddle such promise with an overload of baggage from a bygone era would be tragic.
Predictor: Branscomb, Anne Wells
Prediction, in context:In her 1995 paper “Anonymity, Autonomy and Accountability,” published in the Yale Law Journal, Anne Wells Branscomb writes: ”The traffic on this grid will be global, not merely national. Thus, the First Amendment will be only one small way of prohibiting heavy-handed regulation by one national entity – the United States of America. Other nations may follow our lead, but the inability to ensure that such will be the case is no reason for reticence in putting forth our own views of how the cybercommunities should be governed. Current users of these spaces, however, have some very strong opinions about how they wish to develop the ‘virtual communities’ they are building. They do not welcome intruders unacquainted with what they consider to be a promising frontier of new and exciting opportunities to build more open and diverse discourse among peoples of all races, colors, genders, and predilections. Cyberspaces are populated by people-to-people communication – including person-to-person, some-to-some, and many-to-many. Computer-mediated communication offers an environment unlike any heretofore made available, with the potential for genuinely interactive and cooperative innovation. To saddle such promise with an overload of baggage from a bygone era would be tragic.”
Biography:Anne Wells Branscomb, an expert in technology and the law, was the author of “Who Owns Information? From Privacy to Public Access” (Basic Books, 1994), and the 1995 Yale Law Journal article “Anonymity, Autonomy, and Accountability as Challenges to the First Amendment in Cyberspaces.” (Legislator/Politician/Lawyer.)
Date of prediction: January 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Global Relationships/Politics
Subtopic: Government
Name of publication: The Yale Law Journal
Title, headline, chapter name: Anonymity, Autonomy, and Accountability: Challenges to the First Amendment in Cyberspaces
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://web5.infotrac.galegroup.com/itw/infomark/25/937/33272584w5/purl=rc2_EAIM_1_Anonymity,+autonomy,+and+accountability_________________________________________________________&dyn=sig!1?sw_aep=ncliveec
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