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FCC v. Fox
and the Future of the First Amendment in the Information Age
By Adam Tierer*
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Adam Tierer is a senior fellow with Te Progress & Freedom Foundationand the director of its Center for Digital Media Freedom. He is the author of Parental Controls and Online Child Protection: A Survey of ools and Methods (Te Progress & Freedom Foundation, 2009), and the co-author with Brian Anderson of A Manifesto for Media Freedom (Encounter Books, 2008).
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