Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2013

Keywords

Censorship, Filtering, Derek Bambauer, Orwell's Armchair

Disciplines

Internet Law

Abstract

This essay is a response to Derek Bambauer's article Orwell's Armchair, which proposes "[a] statute enabling censorship of Internet material." Bambauer's theory is process-oriented: it focuses on the institutions that engage in censorship and the procedures that they follow. Accordingly, the essay examines his arguments through the lens of the canonical Legal Process text: Hart and Sacks' The Legal Process. A series of notes and queries inquire whether his proposed statute would limit censorship, regularize it, or legitimate it.

Comments

This article predates the author's affiliation with Cornell Law School.

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