Free Speech and the Internet
The freedom of expression has long been considered to be one of the fundamental tenets of the contemporary and modern democracy, and civil liberties accessing it has long been recognized with great honor and considered as prerequisites for the implementation and development of any individuals. For hundreds of years, democracies and democratic theorists have been troubled in ways of getting to balance freedom of speech and freedom from fear, and other ways that would protect the minor. The internet community strives to maintain its freedom of speech on the internet, to combat attempts by state, political groups, or other sets of organizations from acts of censorships. Although several steps and formulations have been taken to control the freedom of speech on the internet, the responsible bodies assigned duties of controlling and regulating the freedom of speech such as the Supreme Court faces special challenges in dealing with regulations of the speech on the internet.
The daily context of children’s internet usage comes with a combination of both experience of opportunity and risk, which forces them to recognize that this experience goes hand in hand, this increases the chances of meeting the latter rather than having to explore the better part of the opportunity. This poses difficult balance questions in the management of online experiences and interaction for children, as regulation on incentives must be incorporated rather than remain completely separate from those on risk and protection. Through federal legislation, the institution has have been formulating ways of preventing children from gaining access to pornography, which was permitted by Reno v. ACLU. Among the effort laid by the federal legislation was the communication Decency Act which is commonly referred to as CDA of 1996.