Indecency On The Net Reno v. American Civil Liberties Union "If it's illegal in print or broadcast to get a Hustler or Penthouse magazine, sell it to a child, distribute it to a child, display it to a child, it ... transmission of obscene or indecent material on the Internet. A number of civil rights and computer groups challenged the constitutionality of the provisions of the CDA under First Amendment grounds in Reno v. American Civil Liberties Union, the first Supreme Court case about the freedom of speech on the Internet. The group of 20 plaintiffs that challenged the law included the Ame...

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... the new telecommunications device. Anti-censors thought the amendment was acting like the "thought police." Recently though the Supreme Court overturned the Communications Decency Act in the civil case of Reno v. ACLU. This new law states that the Internet deserves the same level of speech protection as books or other printed material. Even with this new law in effect many people ... ...

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... . Barrows was one of the few pedophiles to be caught and brought to justice. One proposal that was struck down from protecting children is the Communications Decency Act (CDA). Janet Reno, Attorney General of the United States, argued that the CDA was in violation of the U.S. Constitution and laws that would be enacted were clear and undefined. If made into law ... ...

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... pornographic material be blocked in all public schools and libraries. Congress is not all the way for censorship though. In June 1997 they struck down the Communications Decency Act in Reno v. ACLU, and granted the highest level of First Amendment protection to the Internet. One reason we need censorship is because there are many people like Robert Thomas who start these ... ...

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... ." While the Supreme Court has often shown that it considers pornography and obscenity to not be protected by the First Amendment, it actually struck down the Communications Decency Act in Reno v. ACLU in June 1997. Another incident in 1996 involved Senator Diane Feinstein, who tried to include a provision in a Defense Appropriations bill that would have banned bomb making material from the ... ...

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... seeing obscene material and stop it from spreading around the internet. In previous attempts by the government to ban explicit material the effort was deemed unconstitutional. In 1997 ruled in Reno v. American Civil Liberties Union that the Communications Decency Act was unconstitutional, declaring that "the Internet is entitled to the same broad free speech protections given to books, magazines, and casual ... ...

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