FC: Firms, civil liberties groups file Virginia free speech suit

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

http://www.wired.com/news/news/politics/story/22111.html

                     Keeping 'Net Capital' Free
                     by Declan McCullagh (declan () wired com)

                     11:15 a.m.  6.Oct.99.PDT
                     The state proclaiming itself America's
                     Internet capital is getting sued in federal
                     court for censoring the Net. 

                     Virginia, which last month announced the
                     availability of license plates describing it
                     as the "Internet C@pital," also approved
                     a law that makes it a crime to publish
                     erotic commercial Web sites or send
                     sexually explicit email. 

                     That was enough to get the attention of
                     Virginia's Internet industry, which joined
                     civil liberties groups and science fiction
                     authors in a federal lawsuit filed
                     Wednesday in Alexandria. 

                     [...]


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