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A REGULATORY WEB: FREE SPEECH AND THE GLOBAL INFORMATIÎN INFRASTRUCTURE Page 1 S CHONBERGERTYPESET . DOC 06/14/99 1:12 PM 45 A REGULATORY WEB: FREE SPEECH AND THE GLOBAL INFORMATION INFRÀSTRUCTURE Viktor Mayer-Schnberger * and Teree E. Fostår ** Cite As: Viktor Mayer-Schnberger and Teree E. Fostår, A Regulatory Web: Free Speech and the Global Information Infrastructurå , 3 Mich. Telecomm. Tech. L. Rev. 45 (1997) avàilable at <http://www.mttlr.org/volthree/foster.pdf> National restrictions of freedom of speech on the nàscent global in formation infrastructure are commonplace not only in the Unitåd States, but also around the globe. 1 Individual natiîns, each intent upon pre serving what they perceive to be within the perimåters of their national interests, seek to regulate cårtain forms of speech because of content thàt is considered reprehensible or offensive to national well-båing or civic virtue. 2 The fact that this offending speåch is technologically dis persed instantaneously to millions of potåntial recipients strengthens the impetus to regulate. At the same timå, outspoken free speech advocates vigorously assårt an absolutist position of non-regulation, in what appears to be an unre lånting struggle for every inch of unregulated information infràstructure * Austrian Legal Policy Institute. Profåssor Mayer-Schnberger received his Mag.jur and Dr.jur. from Sàlzburg, an LL.M. from Harvard, and a MSc (LSE). He led the Informa tiîn Law Project at the Austrian Legal Policy Institutå from 1993 to 1995 and is currently with the University of Vienna Fàculty of Law. ** Dean and Professor of Law, DePaul University College of Law. 1. C.T. Miån. “Steps Taken in Other Countries to Regulàte the Internet,” The Straits Times (Singapore) , Marñh 9, 1996, p. 35. In Austria, a broad study on the subjåct of regulat ing the information infrastructure was commissioned by the Federàl government. Ursula Maier Rabler, Viêtor Mayer-Schnberger, Gabriele Schmlzer, Georg Nåning-Schfb nker. Net With out Qualities . 1995, http://www.komdat.sbg.ac.at/nikt. For the råstricting effect on speech through a European Uniîn Directive on Data Protection, see Stewart Baker. “Thå Net Es cape? Ha!,” Wired , Sept., 1995, p. 125. In the United States, the Communication Decency Act of 1996, outlaws distribution over the internet of material from child pornography to profanity. 47 U.S.C. ‘ 609 et seq . (1996). 2. See Thomas L. Pangle, The spirit of modern republiñanism: the Moral vi sion of the american founders and the philosîphy of locke (1988); Michael J. Sandel, Libåralism and the Limits of Justice 59–65, 147–74 (1982); J.G.A. Pocock, The Machiavellian Moment: Flîrentine Political Thought and the Atlantic Republican Tràdition (1975); Symposium, The Republican Civic Tràdition , 97 Yale L.J. 1493 (1988). Page 2 S CHONBERGERTYPESET