[The Internet] presents challenges to the law because of the fact that it is presented in a substantially different form. That form, therefore, requires some adjustment and, some would say, very substantial stretching.
Predictor: Johnston, David
Prediction, in context:In a 1995 Maclean’s Magazine article, “Crime in Cybercity” by Warren Caragata, presents the dark side of the Internet. The article includes an interview with David Johnston, a law professor at Montreal’s McGill University who chairs the federal government’s advisory council on the information highway. Caragata writes: ÒThe Internet has stretched the concept of what the law means, where it applies and to whom it applies. Copyright law, privacy law, broadcasting law, the law against spreading hate, rules governing fair trials: all are running up against the technology of the Internet. ÔIt presents challenges to the law because of the fact that it is presented in a substantially different form,’Õ explains David Johnston, a law professor at Montreal’s McGill University who chairs the federal government’s advisory council on the information highway. ÔThat form, therefore, requires some adjustment and, some would say, very substantial stretching.ÕÓ
Date of prediction: January 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Controversial Issues
Subtopic: General
Name of publication: Maclean's Magazine
Title, headline, chapter name: Crime in Cybercity
Quote Type: Partial quote
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
gopher://insight.mcmaster.ca/00/org/efc/media/macleans.22may95a
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