Bloggers like Mr. Zhang argue that growing restrictions on Internet speech only inflame ordinary users, and that bit by bit "people are pushing the wall back".
That said, experienced users participating in Internet speech recognition forums have found that ViaVoice Millennium and NaturallySpeaking version 4 are both capable of accuracy rates exceeding 98percentt.
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"My vision of this new world is one of increasing interconnectedness," he said, using a turn of phrase that might seem more apropos for an Internet speech.
In his 27-page order, Judge Roger W. Titus wrote that "while Mr. Cassidy's speech may have inflicted substantial emotional distress, the government's indictment here is directed squarely at protected speech: anonymous, uncomfortable Internet speech addressing religious matters".
(I have written before about the limitations of a law called Section 230 of the 1996 Communications Decency Act, which is the main law that deals with Internet speech).
Justice Kennedy said that even with such a standard, "the actual standard applied is bound to vary by community nevertheless" and to impose "a particular burden on Internet speech".
Notwithstanding this happy outcome for Chambers, the route by which the court reached its decision is worthy of closer attention to see what it tells us about the courts' attitudes to internet speech.
Following the passage of the controversial Communications Decency Act (1996), which attempted to place prohibitions on Internet speech in various ways, Barlow wrote the widely disseminated "A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace," in which he argued that cyberspace should be freed from outdated notions of property, expression, and identity.
Internet Speech In 1997, the court was unanimous in finding that the Communications Decency Act, an initial effort by Congress to shield children from sexually explicit material on the Internet, was so broad that it unconstitutionally interfered with communication between adults.
"The Open Internet Speech".
