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To the technology news editor:

Supreme Court Cites USA TODAY Web Site in Denver v. FCC First Amendment 
Defense

Arlington, VA -- USA TODAY Online and the Gateway 2000 internet sites 
produced the first online articles ever to be cited in a Supreme Court 
opinion.  Justice David H. Souter cited both web sites in Denver Area 
Educational Telecommunications Consortium vs. FCC, 95-124, a case deciding 
whether or not a cable company must carry stations which broadcast adult 
material.

     "As cable and telephone companies begin their competition for control 
over the single wire that will carry both their services, we can hardly 
settle rules for review or regulation on the assumption that cable will 
remain a separable and useful category of First Amendment scrutiny.  And as 
broadcast, cable, and the cyber-technology of the Internet and the World 
Wide Web approach the day of using a common receiver, we can hardly assume 
that standards for judging the regulation of one of them will not have 
immense, but not unknown and unknowable, effects on the others," writes the 
Justice.

     The Justice used a USA TODAY article on cable modems as evidence that 
computers and television will soon converge. The article cited is found on 
USA TODAY Online at http://www.usatoday.com/life/cyber/bonus/cb006.htm. 
Regulated content on television, he opines, will soon be impossible to 
distinguish from the unregulated content of the Internet.

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