ABSTRACT
The seismic changes in communications emanating from the Internet have left legislatures and courts scrambling to fashion laws and judicial precedents that will both preserve the individual freedoms of speech and privacy while protecting legitimate governmental interests. Television, radio, motion pictures, music, and various types of artistic communication all are governed by the same legal doctrines. Congress has enacted statutes that on the one hand speak to ensure open communications and on the other restrain undesirable and unprotected speech. Courts in response have been busy adapting old legal concepts to this new technological age.
