Technology's challenges to the First Amendment

Walter S. Baer

Telecommunications Policy, vol. 17, issue 1, 3-13

Abstract: Freedom of speech, protected in the USA for 200 years by the First Amendment, is under stress as a result of the new information technologies. The author outlines the threats and opportunities offered by technological advances before examining more closely issues concerned with databanks and privacy, 'junk calls', access to public information and incipient censorship, both governmental and private. He argues that the First Amendment should be applied to all media, and that government regulation of information content should be used only as a last resort. Above all, the public must be fully informed of the challenges and opportunities offered by the new technologies.

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