Archive for the ‘The Internet & The Law’ Category

What’s Wrong With Orin Kerr’s “Technology Neutrality”?

Tuesday, April 27th, 2010

My last post laid the foundations for a discussion of Orin Kerr’s latest law review article, “Applying the Fourth Amendment to the Internet: A General Approach” (2010) 62 Stan.L.Rev. 1005.

Today’s post will focus on Kerr’s proposed application of the Fourth to the Internet.  In particular, I write about his “technology neutral” content/non-content doctrine, explaining, among other things, why that label is a misnomer.  (Or should I say why those labels are misnomers?) (more…)

The More Things Change: Why the U.S. Constitution Should Not Survive the Internet

Saturday, December 27th, 2008

Adrianos Facchetti, a California “Internet Defamation Attorney,” writing the California Defamation Law Blog asks, among other things, if governments should regulate the Internet to control defamatory speech — however that might be accomplished.

I could only think of one response….

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