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Is speech on the Internet entitled to as much protection as speech in more traditional media?

April 26, 2017entitled internet media speech traditional

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Is speech on the Internet entitled to as much protection as speech in more traditional media?

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Yes, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Reno v. ACLU (1997) that speech on the Internet receives the highest level of First Amendment protection. The Supreme Court explained that “our cases provide no basis for qualifying the level of First Amendment scrutiny that should be applied to this medium.