Word: cyberspeech
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Congress's first attempt at banning indecent cyberspeech, the sweeping Communications Decency Act of 1996, was struck down by the Supreme Court. The Child Online Protection Act is a narrower law, focused on commercial websites that don't restrict access to minors. It spares sites from prosecution if they require visitors to provide credit-card numbers or proof, via age-verification programs, that they're adults...
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...requires that adults limit their conversations to whatever a court may consider fit for children. (Even sexually explicit speech with "redeeming social value" is included in this ban; "indecency" is defined as a "patently offensive" description of sexual or excretory activities or organs.) Federal law now treats any "indecent" cyberspeech between consenting adults that children may hear as a criminal offense, as if it were a form of seduction or statutory rape. This provision is being challenged in federal court and should not stand; enforcement of it has already been temporarily enjoined...
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