Clause of the U.S. Constitution because it attempted to regulate activity beyond states borders. In the Georgia case, ACLU v. Miller, Judge Marvin Shoob found a law banning anonymous speech on the Internet to be an unconstitutional restriction on free speech that affords prosecutors and police officers with substantial room for selective prosecution of persons who express minority viewpoints. The Supreme Courts ruling on Reno v. ACLU, together with the New York and Georgia decisions, creates a body of law that will help ensure that the free speech principles embodied in the Constitution apply with the same force on the Internet as they do in other strict scrutiny media. Many more cases challenging state attempts to regulate the Internet have occurred, and are strengthening and solidifying the Reno v. ACLU decision.The Supreme Courts decision will stand as one of the most important First Amendment decisions of the 20th century. The Court, whose freedom of speech jurisprudence had recently been fragmented and confusing, has issued a clear, logical and correct statement which will be the cornerstone of free speech decision-making into the next century. The Supreme Courts decision that the Internet cannot be censored by CDAs guidelines is critically important to the future of what one judge described as the most participatory form of mass speech yet developed. ...
