IP: Yale Law Professor Is Main Architect of Global Filtering Plan

[David Farber <farber () cis upenn edu>]

Why am I NOT surprised djf

> From: "the terminal of Geoff Goodfellow" <geoff () iconia com>
> To: "Dave e-mail pamphleteer Farber" <farber () cis upenn edu>
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/99/09/cyber/cyberlaw/10law.html
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> Yale Law Professor Is Main Architect of Global Filtering Plan
> By CARL S. KAPLAN
> The New York Times
>
> An ambitious proposal for a global system to rate and filter Internet content,
> due to be released Friday at a conference in Munich, Germany, has already been
> attacked by free speech advocates who say it is a dangerous recipe for
> censorship.
>
> So it may come as a surprise that the man whose ideas about filtering are at
> the heart of the proposal is a highly respected Yale law professor who, by his
> own admission, reveres the First Amendment.
>
> Jack M. Balkin, Knight Professor of Constitutional Law and the First Amendment
> at Yale Law School, is unapologetic about his role in the debate over
> filtering. In a recent phone interview before he departed for Munich, Balkin
> said that filtering will be an inevitable feature of the Internet, given the
> glut of information available and the need to protect children from 
> potentially
> harmful content.
>
> <snip>
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