> A website is speech. It is not a bomb. There is no imminent danger it creates and no provider has an affirmative obligation to monitor and make determinations about the theoretically harmful nature of speech a site may contain.
Replace website with song and provider with record label, and you'll have a very familiar conversation from nearly 30 years ago:
> A website is speech. It is not a bomb. There is no imminent danger it creates and no provider has an affirmative obligation to monitor and make determinations about the theoretically harmful nature of speech a site may contain.
Replace website with song and provider with record label, and you'll have a very familiar conversation from nearly 30 years ago:
Frank Zappa on Crossfire, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ISil7IHzxc
The comparison is loose, but it's eerily reminiscent.