"Just as the strength of the Internet is chaos, so the strength of our liberty depends upon the chaos and cacophony of the unfettered speech the First Amendment protects."

Federal District court Judge Stewart R. Dalzell, one of a three-judge panel in Philadelphia that ruled that major parts of the Communications Decency Act were unconstitutional. The supreme court decided to hear the case again and affirmed this decision in June 1997.

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