It's Not Easy to Stand Up to Cyberbullies, but We Must

A decade ago, the Supreme Court proclaimed the Internet a "unique and wholly new medium — a vast platform from which to address and hear from a worldwide audience of millions of readers, viewers, researchers, and buyers." Academe fully shared that sense of promise and excitement. Even at that time, the justices were hardly naïve about the lurking presence of offensive material in cyberspace; the court's first major case about free speech online, Reno v. American Civil

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