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Word: cyberspeech (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1996-1996
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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...

Author: By Wendy Kaminer, | Title: Media Regulation Takes Away Rights | 3/22/1996 | See Source »

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