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Digitized Pornography Meets The First Amendment, Eric M. Freedman

Hofstra Law Faculty Scholarship

As the professor on the panel, I feel that I should start by putting our subject into a bit of context. Then I will focus on the criminalization of depictions of imaginary children before saying a few words about the overbreadth of this statute.

By way of context, then, the problem that we are discussing is one that is characteristic of the introduction of new communications technologies.

At the end of the nineteenth century, when movies were first shown, people came running out of the theaters in panic when they saw a picture of a locomotive bearing down upon them-the …