Exam 5: Freedom of Expression

The Supreme Court has also ruled that the First Amendment protects the right to speak ____________________ as part of the guarantee of free speech.

The problem with the Communications Decency Act was its broad language and vague definition of ____, resulting in the Act being ruled unconstitutional.

Under the CAN-SPAM Act, e-mail sent by commercial e-mailers must be identified as an advertisement and include a valid physical postal address for the ____________________.

The Children's Internet Protection Act required federally financed schools and libraries to use some form of technological protection to block computer access to obscene material, pornography, and anything else considered harmful to minors.

The Federal Trade Commission is charged with enforcing the CAN-SPAM act but has done little to enforce the act.

The Supreme Court has held that this form of speech is not protected by the First Amendment and may be forbidden by the government: ____.

The problem with the Communications Decency Act was its broad language and vague definition of indecency, a standard that was left to individual ____________________ to decide.

____ was a printer who was prosecuted for seditious libel because s(he) refused to reveal the names of anonymous authors whose writings were critical of the governor of new York.

A(n) ____ is often filed against a defendant whose identity is temporarily unknown.

With ____________________ filtering, each Web site's content is evaluated immediately before it is displayed, using such techniques as object analysis and image recognition.

In some states, sexting can result in felony charges and first-time offenders can be registered as sex offenders.

A written defamatory statement is called ____________________.

An aggrieved party can file a(n) ____________________ against a defendant whose identity is temporarily unknown.

Prohibitions against ____________________ that are included in the service contracts between a private ISP and its subscribers do not violate the subscriber's First Amendment rights.

The ____ Act is still in effect and has not been ruled unconstitutional.

In the ICRA rating system, Web authors fill out an online questionnaire to describe the content of their site.

The New York State Court in Pre-Paid v. Sturtz et al. set a legal precedent that refined the criteria that the courts apply when deciding whether or not to approve subpoenas requesting the identity of anonymous Web posters.

The Child Online Protection Act was an attempt to protect children from online pornography while preserving the rights of adults.

The use of a remailer keeps communications anonymous; what is communicated, and whether it is ethical or legal, ____.

Making either an oral or a written statement of an alleged fact that is false and harms another person is called ____________________.