Schedule

• Monday. Debate: Should GU place restrictions on web page content?
• Wednesday. Representative from the Center for Democracy and Technology

Required Reading

1. Rights & Responsibilities, Chapter 4: Free Speech
2. Cavazos and Morin, Chapter 5: Harmful and Dangerous Words and the First Amendment
3. Cyberspace Law for Non-Lawyers, Libel and Defamation in Cyberspace
4. CDT's Communications Decency Act Issues Page
5. Peng Hwa Ang and Berlinda Nadarajan, Censorship and the Internet: A Singapore Perspective, Comm. ACM, Vol. 39, No. 7, July 1996, pp. 72-78.
6. Singapore Broadcasting Authority (SBA) announces Class Licence Scheme for regulating the Internet

Questions

1. What are the key claims of the readings?
2. How does freedom of speech/press differ between the U.S. and Singapore?
3. What are the arguments in favor of censorship?
4. What are the arguments against censorship?
5. What methods can be used to implement a policy of Internet censorship and how effective are they?
6. Is GU responsible if an employee or student publishes libelous material on a web page?