Australia and Europe are taking very different directions
1996 US Telecommunications Act ( calling for deregulation) is opposed world wide:
It is essentially impossible for one country to act as a content gatekeeper for a world community– Michael Epstein, quoted in Campbell, 57.
Hate and offensive contents are of growing social concern ( especially sexual predation on the Net)
1996 US Communications Decency Act made it a felony to transmit obscene, indecent, or harassing material on the Internet where children might see it: struck down n grounds Internet no different from a book store: not like broadcast ACLU v. Janet Reno, 1998)
