Attorney General Holder advocated restricting Internet speech in 1999.
On the 28 May 1999 edition of National Public Radio's Morning Edition Holder stated:
"The court has really struck down every government effort to try to regulate it. We tried with regard to pornography. It is going to be a difficult thing, but it seems to me that if we can come up with reasonable restrictions, reasonable regulations in how people interact on the Internet, that is something that the Supreme Court and the courts ought to favorably look at."