CPSR-GLOBAL Digest 467
Topics covered in this issue include:
1) America Online decision...(@)
by marsha-w@uiuc.edu (Marsha Woodbury)
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Date: Wed, 6 Nov 1996 08:44:00 -0500
From: marsha-w@uiuc.edu (Marsha Woodbury)
To: cpsr-global@cpsr.org
Subject: America Online decision...(@)
Message-ID: <aea6440206021004a58d@[128.174.4.122]>
Edupage, 5 November 1996:
COURT SAYS AOL HAS RIGHT TO RESTRICT UNSOLICITED E-MAIL
A federal district judge in Philadephia has ruled that America Online may
block mass marketing firms from sending unsolicited mail to AOL
subscribers. Rejecting arguments that America Online is a public forum,
Judge Charles R. Weiner said that mass mailer Cyber Promotions Inc. "has no
right under the First Amendment" to reach AOL subscribers with e-mail
advertisements sent over the Internet. An America Online attorney says the
ruling that AOL is not a public forum means that the company may enforce
its own restrictions on speech and behavior when people are communicating
over its computer network. (Washington Post 5 Nov 96 C01)
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