Strategic lawsuit against public participation (SLAPP)
anonymous expression
·
The expression of
opinions by people who do not reveal their identity.
anonymous remailer
·
A company that
provides a service in which an originating IP number (computer address) is
stripped from an email message before the message is sent on to its
destination.
anti-SLAPP laws
·
Laws designed to
reduce frivolous lawsuits filed against citizens and community groups who
oppose corporations, government officials, and others.
Child Online
Protection Act (COPA)
·
A lawthat states
whoever knowingly and with knowledge of the character of the material, in
interstate or foreign commerce by means of the World Wide Web, makes any
communication for commercial purposes that is available to any minor and that
includes any material that is harmful to minors shall be fined not more than
$50,000, imprisoned not more than 6 months, or both. This law was eventually
found to be unconstitutional.
Children's Internet
Protection Act (CIPA)
·
An act that requires
federally financed schools and libraries to use some form of technological
protection (such as an Internet filter) to block computer access to obscene
material, pornography, and anything else considered harmful to minors.
Communications Decency
Act (CDA)
·
A part of the 1996
Telecommunications Act directed at protecting children from online pornography;
it was eventually ruled unconstitutional.
Defamation
·
Making either an oral
or a written statement of alleged fact that is false and harms another person.
Internet censorship
·
The control or suppression
of the publishing or accessing of information on the Internet.
Internet filter
·
Software that can be
used to block access to certain Web sites that contain material deemed
inappropriate or offensive.
John Doe lawsuit
·
A lawsuit in which the
identity of the defendant is temporarily unknown, typically because the
defendant is communicating anonymously or using a pseudonym.
Libel
·
A written defamatory
statement.
Miller v. California
·
The 1973 Supreme Court
case that established a test to determine if material is obscene and therefore
not protected by the First Amendment.
personalization
software
·
Software used by
online marketers to optimize the number, frequency, and mixture of their ad
placements as well as to evaluate how visitors react to new ads.
Sexting
·
Sending sexual
messages, nude or seminude photos, or sexually explicit videos over a cell
phone.
Slander
·
An oral defamatory
statement.
strategic lawsuit
against public participation (SLAPP)
·
A lawsuit brought by
corporations, government officials, and others against citizens and community
groups who oppose them on matters of public interest.
Transparency
·
Any attempt to reveal
and clarify any information or processes that were previously hidden or
unclear.
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