Legal Question in Technology Law in California

Re: The government and the Internet

With all due respect, your question is addressed to the wrong forum. The LawGuru bulletin board is intended (as I understand it, as a pro bono attorney participant) to provide free legal advice on user-specific problems, and not as a sounding board or discussion group for debate of jurisprudential theories or political philosophy.

If I had to take a position on your question, it would be (A) that the federal government should adopt a domestic policy, and (B) that policy should be to allow maximum freedom of expression consistent with already-existing Constitutional limitations on free speech. As you probably know, the Supreme Court has defined impermissible speech rather narrowly over the years. There are very few things you cannot say from a soapbox in Central Park. The restrictions on the Internet should not be qualitatively different.