services. Despite the of being illegal restrictions on Internet access andcontent are increasing world-wide under all forms of government. In France, a countrywhere the press generally have a large amount of freedom, the Internet has recently beenin the spotlight."To enforce censorship of the Internet, free societies find that they become morerepressive and closed societies find new ways to crush political expression and opposition"Vice-President Al Gore, while at an international conference in Brussels about theInternet, in a keynote address said that "[Cyberspace] is about protecting and enlargingfreedom of expression for all our citizens...Ideas should not be checked at the border" Another person attending that conference was Ann Breeson of the American CivilLiberties Union, an organization dedicated to preserving many things including freespeech. She is quoted as saying "Our big victory at Brussels was that we pressured themenough so that Al Gore in his keynote address make a big point of stressing theimportance of free speech on the Internet." Many other organizations have fought againstlaws and have succeeded. A good example of this is the fight that various groups put onagainst the recent Communication Decency Act (CDA) of the U.S. Senate. The CitizensInternet Empowerment Coalition on February 26,1996 filed a historic lawsuit inPhiladelphia against the U.S. Department of Justice and Attorney General Janet Reno tomake certain that the First Amendment of the U.S.A. would not be compromised by theCDA. The plaintiffs alone, including American Booksellers Association, the Freedom toRead Foundation, Apple, Microsoft, America Online, the Society of ProfessionalJournalists, the Commercial Internet eXchange Association, Wired, and HotWired, alongwith thousands of netizens (citizens of the Internet) shows the dedication that is felt bymany different people and groups to the cause of free speech on the Internet.Just recently in Fra...
