Keeping politicians' hands off the Net & everything else related to technology
[NOTE: The following is a template for how to script congressional testimony when invited to speak about online safety issues.] Mr. Chairman and members of the Committee, thank you inviting me here today to testify about the most important issue to me and everyone in this room: Our children. There is nothing I care more [...]
[Fellow members of the Society for the Prevention of Vice, I urge you to take immediate action to continue our crusade to clean up America's media marketplace by ridding it of the scourge of media hyper-violence. A clip has come to our attention that merits particular concern and I hope you will agree something must [...]
National Freedom of Speech Week is here again. As I point out each time it comes around, it’s good opportunity for those of us in America to remember how lucky we are to live in a country that respects freedom of the press, speech, and assembly. In my essay commemorating the first Freedom of Speech [...]
Catherine Holahan of Business Week points out that consumer and children’s advocacy groups are looking to expand their efforts to regulate fatty and sugary food advertising in the name of “protecting the children”: Having successfully lobbied the government to place limits on junk food ads on TV, they now target marketing to kids via the [...]
Along with my friends John Morris and Sophia Cope of the Center for Democracy & Technology, I have just submitted an amicus brief to the Supreme Court in the potentially historic free speech case FCC v. Fox, which will be heard in November. [Reminder: The FCC v. Fox case is the indecency case involving the [...]
May 28, 2012
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