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These new penalties are part of the Communications Decency Act (CDA) of 1996, which was included in the sweeping telecommunications reform bill signed into law last week by President Clinton...
Many politicians and religious groups have hailed the act as the best way to keep the Internet safe for children by trying to sanitize the "red light districts" on the worldwide computer network. And to many Americans who aren't computer-savvy, the CDA is greeted with unqualified praise. "We've gotta keep those molesters away from our children," they might...
These misconceptions about the Internet have led to a Congressional backlash. Most of the uproar over the CDA comes not from its restrictions on the well-defined category of "obscene" material, but over the fuzzier genre of "indecency...
...Communications Decency Act (CDA), passed by Congress last Thursday, has drawn fire from Harvard students for being vague, unenforceable and an infringement upon free speech...
Protests against the bill have appeared on Harvard newsgroups. Posts in alt.fan.karl-malden.nose have made prominent use of profanities deemed illegal under the CDA...