Governments’ efforts to restrict Internet speech they regard as dangerous have varied greatly. Islamic countries have focused on pornography and some forms of political speech. Some liberal Western democracies, such as the United States, have sought to censor or suppress sexually explicit speech, and others, such as France and Germany, have concentrated on virulent hate speech. It is instructive to consider the concerted efforts of the United States to restrict sexually explicit content and speech in cyberspace by means of command and control legislation. (more…)