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Propaganda and Mass Communication In February 1996, President Bill Clinton signed into law the Telecommunications Act of 1996, the first revision of our country's communications laws in 62 years. This historic event has been greeted with primarily positive respo ....

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.... Some of these organizations are broad based civil liberties groups, some fight for freedom of speech based on the first amendment, and other groups favor the lowering of laws involving the use of encrypted data on computers. All of these groups, however, speak out for free speech on the Internet, and all of these groups have utilized the Internet to spread propaganda to further this common cause of online free speech and opposition to the CDA. Context in which the propaganda occurs Five years ago, most people had never heard of the Internet, but today the Internet is a term familiar to most people even if they are not exactly sure about wh ....