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Wikileaks And The First Amendment, Geoffrey R. Stone
Wikileaks And The First Amendment, Geoffrey R. Stone
Federal Communications Law Journal
FCBA Distinguished Speaker Series
In November 2010, Julian Assange's WikiLeaks collaborated with major media organizations to release thousands of classified U.S. State Department documents. American soldier Bradley Manning stands accused of leaking those documents to the website. In response, Congress introduced the SHIELD Act to amend the Espionage Act of 1917, making it a crime for any person to disseminate any classified information concerning American intelligence or the identity of a classified informant. Such sweeping language, while possibly constitutional as applied to government employees like Manning, is plainly unconstitutional as applied to those like Assange and WikiLeaks who subsequently publish …
Computer Code Vs. Legal Code: Setting The Rules In Cyberspace, Mark S. Nadel
Computer Code Vs. Legal Code: Setting The Rules In Cyberspace, Mark S. Nadel
Federal Communications Law Journal
Book Review: Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace, by Lawrence Lessig, Basic Books, 1999, 230 pages.