"The Communications Decency Act is hazardous to the nation's public health, " said Roger Evans of Planned Parenthood.
Waxman went before the U.S. Supreme Court last week to praise the Communications Decency Act, not to bury it.
Congress passed the Communications Decency Act of 1996, but that basically immunizes these Web sites from lies that are posted by their users.
Congress added a splash of impunity to the mix in 1996, when it passed a pro-Internet law known as the Communications Decency Act.
This has, not surprisingly, become a matter of national concern, one that Congress tried to deal with by passing the ham-handed Communications Decency Act in 1996.
Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996 allows lawsuits against the content provider, but not the computer services provider who provides the frame for the message.
The prime target of the protest is the Communications Decency Act , the part of the telecom bill that would outlaw the transmission of sexually explicit materials to minors.
Bankston, a free-speech advocate for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, cites a provision in the Communications Decency Act stating that communication services aren't responsible for the speech that they enable.
Mentioned above, the Communications Decency Act is legislation that Congress passed to protect the free flow of information online by stating that websites could not be sued for carrying defamatory material.
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The official reason for this was to make the Net a "safe place" without government censorship--which made sense, I guess, given that the Supreme Court had not yet ruled the Communications Decency Act unconstitutional.
The Supreme Court took a similarly stern view of Congress' ham-handed effort to curb smut on the Net, now used by 210 million people in the U.S. The court in 1997 ruled 9--0 to strike down the Communications Decency Act, passed in 1996.
ChatRoulette would not be protected by Section 230 the Communications Decency Act, which usually indemnifies hosting companies from the actions of their users because the Act protects websites from liability for civil charges and state criminal charges, but does not protect against federal criminal prosecutions.
In response to the early court decisions, to avoid the chilling effect of potential liability in a medium of prolific speech, and to encourage the active monitoring, editing and removal of unlawful content online without the disincentive of having such actions lead to claims of liability for being a publisher, Congress enacted Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.
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