In some alternative universe out there, the world is using a very
different internet. It’s a network without sex and violence, devoid of
four-letter words and racy ideas, subject to constant monitoring by
censors and harsh punishment to those who cross the line into
controversy.
It’s the Taliban internet; the Kansas internet. It’s the internet in
a world in which the U.S. Supreme Court never overturned the 1996
Communications Decency Act — the web’s first and still most-sweeping
U.S. censorship law, struck down after a legal challenge filed by civil
liberties groups 10 years ago Wednesday.
"It was big stuff," said Marc Rotenberg, head of the Electronic
Privacy Information Center, one of the groups that filed the case. "We
were fighting to save the soul of the internet."
Ryan Singel
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