Event Title
FCC Regulation of the Telecommunications Press
Location
Duke Law School
Start Date
24-1-1975 9:00 AM
End Date
24-1-1975 10:15 AM
Description
The author thinks we would not tolerate this sort of regulation in any context other than telecommunications; the First Amendment would forbid it. But somehow telecommunications speech is different and permits, many think, a different First Amendment regime. The author seeks here to raise questions about this assumption through an exploration of the justifications generally offered to support this different First Amendment regime for telecommunications speech. After exploring those justifications, the author will offer some alternative strategies for reforming telecommunications regulation in a manner which both eliminates present intrusion into protected speech and forwards the First Amendment interest of diversity of ideas.
Related Paper
David L. Bazelon, FCC Regulation of the Telecommunications Press, 1975 Duke Law Journal 213-251 (1975)
Available at: http://scholarship.law.duke.edu/dlj/vol24/iss2/1FCC Regulation of the Telecommunications Press
Duke Law School
The author thinks we would not tolerate this sort of regulation in any context other than telecommunications; the First Amendment would forbid it. But somehow telecommunications speech is different and permits, many think, a different First Amendment regime. The author seeks here to raise questions about this assumption through an exploration of the justifications generally offered to support this different First Amendment regime for telecommunications speech. After exploring those justifications, the author will offer some alternative strategies for reforming telecommunications regulation in a manner which both eliminates present intrusion into protected speech and forwards the First Amendment interest of diversity of ideas.
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