Abortion site ruling sets off firestorm

A federal court ruling against a controversial antiabortion activist site brings the debate over free speech online to a head, as civil libertarians find themselves choosing sides between First Amendment rights and the right to privacy. In the aftermath, the ISP that hosted the site takes it down, as the site's creator vows to find a new host and add a Web cam feature that would visually identify women who seek abortions.

ISP shuts down antiabortion site MindSpring shutters the controversial antiabortion Nuremberg Files Web site following a federal jury ruling that it threatened the lives of abortion providers. How free should online speech be? news analysis The contentious issues of abortion and free speech collided when a civil jury in Oregon found antiabortion activists guilty of inciting violence via the Web. Abortion "hit list" slammed in court Antiabortion activists are found guilty of inciting violence by posting on the Net a list of physicians' names that reads like a "wanted" poster.