Joe Shea, Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetJoe Shea
American journalist
Date of Birth: 07-Feb-1947
Date of Death: 19-Oct-2016
Profession: journalist
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Aquarius 
About Joe Shea
- Joe Shea (February 7, 1947 - October 19, 2016) was editor-in-chief of The American Reporter, the first daily Internet newspaper, started on April 10, 1995.
- Shea was the named plaintiff in the landmark First Amendment case, Shea v Reno, which ended with the Communications Decency Act and its proposed censorship of the Internet declared unconstitutional in Manhattan Federal Court and affirmed in the U.
- S.
- Supreme Court in 1997.
- He is a noted community activist whose efforts to clean up a dangerous neighborhood in Hollywood, California were praised by authorities as a national model for Neighborhood Watch.
- His defiance of the Clinton Administration on the censorship law was featured in "A Day In the Life of The Internet". Shea was born in Goshen, New York, to Mr.
- & Mrs.
- John S.
- Shea, Jr., of Monroe and New York City.
- His grandfather John S.
- Shea was elected Sheriff of New York in 1909, the first Republican to be elected in Manhattan since Reconstruction and the last until his uncle, William F.
- Shea, was elected to the bench in 1954. Joe Shea also started the Committee to Draft U.S.
- Senator John Kerry which sought to get the Massachusetts senator into the 1988 Presidential race.
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