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Stephen Briese

Stephen Briese

Article | Institute for Justice

Stephen Briese is the publisher of the Bullish Review market letter.

July 30, 1997 | First Amendment

CFTC Challenge

The CFTC vs. The First Amendment: The Federal Government's Assault on Free Speech

In one of the first cases to extend First Amendment protections to the Internet, the Institute for Justice successfully defeated an attempt by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission to license Internet and software publishers. If the regulators had prevailed, development of software and online content would have been dramatically curtailed as government agencies would have…

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