A Quote by Stewart Dalzell

The Internet is a far more speech-enhancing medium than print, the village green, or the mails. Because it would necessarily affect the Internet itself, the C.D.A. would necessarily reduce the speech available for adults on the medium. This is a constitutionally intolerable result.

Stewart Dalzell

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Stewart Dalzell
American - Judge
Born: September 18, 1943

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