Welcome to Mata's Place!
We've just moved to a new server, and I'm redesigning this site, so all that's here right now is this page. Don't worry though, Aquerra, and Jack Gulick's Nine Princes in Hong Kong and Welcome to Hogwarts! have their own domains now on this server, as does Jack's game-related weblog The Non-Euclidian Staircase. My own gaming-related pages, and my weblog, A Half-Century and Counting . . ., will be added soon.
"As the most participatory form of mass speech yet developed, the Internet deserves the highest protection from governmental intrusion. * * * The absence of governmental regulation on Internet content has unquestionably produced a kind of chaos, but . . . [j]ust 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."
U.S. District Court (E.D. PA June 12, 1996) (opinion of Dalzell, J.)
"The record demonstrates that the growth of the Internet has been and continues to be phenomenal. As a matter of constitutional tradition, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, we presume that governmental regulation of the content of speech is more likely to interfere with the free exchange of ideas than to encourage it. The interest in encouraging freedom of expression in a democratic society outweighs any theoretical but unproven benefit of censorship."
U.S. Supreme Court ( June 26, 1997), Justice John Paul Stevens for the majority
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