Unless Congress reverses itself or President Clinton vetoes new legislation containing the Communications Decency Act, the Internet as a mass-communications medium different from TV and radio is dead.
Predictor: Speakers at an anti-censorship rally
Prediction, in context:In a 1995 article in The Seattle Times, reporter Paul Andrews shares reactions to the Communications Decency Act. Andrews writes: ”Speakers at a rally last Thursday at the downtown Seattle Public Library – and similar events in San Francisco, New York and elsewhere – issued a sober warning: Unless Congress reverses itself or President Clinton vetoes new legislation containing the Communications Decency Act, the Internet as a mass-communications medium different from TV and radio is dead. The Internet has thrived, they say, because of its open, anything-goes structure, where text and images can be as free-flowing as spoken conversation. Restricting it is akin to the government’s telling people they cannot say – or by extension, think – certain words or images, the Net’s defenders say.”
Date of prediction: December 1, 1995
Topic of prediction: Controversial Issues
Subtopic: Censorship/Free Speech
Name of publication: Seattle Times
Title, headline, chapter name: Will Censorship Muffle Internet?
Quote Type: Paraphrase
Page number or URL of document at time of study:
http://web.lexis-nexis.com/universe/document?_m=b2a7108a4ff67317508ab7004eee60cf&_docnum=1&wchp=dGLbVlz-lSlAl&_md5=7efcd28e70beb72b134999f8ca3aeb91
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