Chapter 7 Blown to Bits Summary At The beginning of chapter 7, You can’t say that on the internet, the novel introduced the idea that of which censorship should be appropriate for internet use. The earlier stages of the chapter demonstrated the need for a set of rules similar to DOPA (Deleting Online Predators Act) and the importance for it in the primitive internet. With MySpace usage on the increase, and strangers that could never communicate with each other found ways to converse. This increased the accessibility of child predators to children. In order to limit the ability of these two groups from communicating it illegalized the ability form children to access to these chatting devices. This law was not passed due to the fact that there needed to be the freedom to communicate …show more content…
Next the dilemma that is discussed was the issue of whether someone would be considered a publisher or just a distributor. THis problem arose when there was conflict such as slander originating on the internet. People that had websites containing the harsh information were accused of slander there were multiple debates over this issue and they were all at high stakes they were closely and intensely monitored by many websites that are publishers and distributors. Compuserve was taken to court for defamatory statements about Cubby Inc. that were published on it’s website and were cleared of all responsibility for the libelous material because they simply publish information given to them and don’t review the material. Later Stratton Oakmont took a company named Prodigy to court for defamatory comments posted on it page. they were held accountable and Stratton Oakmont was awarded 30 million dollars. This was on the grounds that there were screening for the website. The issues of the censorship disabilities and difficulties plagued the early internet as well as the publisher versus distributor