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What Next | Daily News and Analysis

Can the Law Keep Up With the Internet?

What Next | Daily News and Analysis

Slate Podcasts

News, Daily News, News Commentary

4.32.4K Ratings

🗓️ 24 June 2022

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

The openness of the internet is its greatest strength. Or a glaring weakness, depending on who you ask. Does something need to change?

Guest: Jared Schroeder

Host: Sonari Glinton


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1:07.9

Let's go back to 1996.

1:15.2

You know, sign fell friends, the Simpsons were still good, and the worldwide web was the wow,

1:22.2

wow, west. There were still great fortunes to be made and a lot of freedom, maybe too much.

1:29.1

Congress was very worried about one thing. That's Jared Schroeder. He's a professor at

1:34.3

Southern Methodist University in Dallas, SMU. He studies free expression and emerging technologies.

1:41.6

There's a famous time magazine cover, and it's got the words in big letters, cyber porn.

1:48.1

This new thing, the worldwide web was open and free. For the first time, nearly everyone had knowledge

1:56.0

at their fingertips and the freedom to connect with people all over the world. But that freedom

2:02.2

also meant easy access to obscene and indecent content to anyone with internet access, including

2:08.7

children. The very same stuff I try to keep my kids from not staying today, right? 25 years later.

2:14.0

Congress's solution, the Communication Decent Seactor, or CDA, which passed in 1996.

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