EPIC joins the American Civil Liberties Union and more than a dozen other organizations in challenging this ill-advised and unconstitutional attempt to impose governmental content regulation on emerging global electronic media. Less apparent is the assault on privacy rights that the legislation will engender. These records would be accessible to law enforcement agencies and prosecutors investigating alleged violations of the statute. Such a regime constitutes a gross violation of Americans' rights to access information privately and anonymously. Less than a year ago, the Supreme Court upheld the right to anonymous speech in McIntyre v.
Anonymity is a shield from the tyranny of the majority.
The Communications Decency Act seeks to destroy that right. EPIC is confident that upon review of the legislation and its impact upon free speech and privacy rights in emerging electronic media, the courts will invalidate the measure as fundamentally at odds with the Constitution.