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Not in Front of the Children: "Indecency," Censorship, and the Innocence of Youth.(Review)
American Prospect, The, August, 2001 by PLATT, LEAH
Tags: American Civil Liberties Union, censorship, Government, Regulations, SOFTWARE
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Not in Front of the Children: "Indecency," Censorship, and the Innocence of Youth By Marjorie Heins. Hill and Wang, 402 pages, $30.00
WILLIAM STAYTON IS AN unusual--and unusually frank--civil libertarian. Baptist clergyman, sex therapist, and star witness for the American Civil Liberties Union in its challenge to the Communications Decency Act of 1996 (CDA), Stayton took the court by surprise with his claim that online pornography is not harmful to young viewers. To a government lawyer who asked, almost mockingly, whether he would have a problem exposing a ...
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