It may be time for the FCC to place a cop on the Information Superhighway.
Predictor: Cooper, Abraham
Prediction, in context:In a 1994 article in Home Office Computing, reporter Mitt Jones interviews Rabbi Abraham Cooper, associate dean of the Simon Weisenthal Center. Jones writes: ”Freedom of expression for one person is a violation of the First Amendment for another. The age-old censorship debate – what material should be banned and what will be the cost of liberty – has now spread to the information superhighway, that once freewheeling, no-holds-barred place also known as cyberspace … Recently, the Simon Wiesenthal Center, a Los Angeles institute devoted to exposing anti-Semitism, submitted a summary of a massive dossier of cyberspace hatemongering to the FCC. The three-year investigation, sparked by tips from users, portrays the Internet as an unchecked haven for bigots. One file, called Homobash, describes shooting a gay person in the face with a gun; a graphic titled Monkey pictures African-Americans copulating with animals and suggests that such acts account for the rise of AIDS. Says Rabbi Abraham Cooper, associate dean of the Wiesenthal Center: ‘It may be time for the FCC to place a cop on the Information Superhighway.'”
Date of prediction: November 1, 1994
Topic of prediction: Controversial Issues
Subtopic: Jurisdiction/Control
Name of publication: Home Office Computing
Title, headline, chapter name: Censorship in Cyberspace
Quote Type: Direct quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://web.lexis-nexis.com/universe/document?_m=30a8ef66835e084fe551c5cf2d6b0e14&_docnum=1&wchp=dGLbVtb-lSlAl&_md5=17959ebb004b0f1e4aba8b263d11eb97
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