A PostMortem For The CommunicationsDecencyAct Hal Berghel UniversityofArkansas hlb@acm.org n a 7-2 decision last July, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the CDA as too vague, too broad and in violation of the first amendment. It's hard to imagine how much more could be wrong with it. But it still has something of a life of its own - at least among the more socially conservative among us. In this article, we review some of the history behind the CDA, discuss some of the technologies commonly associated with it, and then try to derive some truths of enduring value from the experience. I Fears - Real And Imagined We live in a complicated socie~ Those of us who are parents of young children are forever mindful of the real and present danger of child predators of all kinds. Little more than a year ago the U.S.' largest kiddie porn ring was prosecuted. Photographs of kidnaped children are prominently posted in our supermarkets and on our milk cartons. From a social point of view, these are not good signs. These are signs of a dysfunctional socie~ In attempting to deal with these realities, the Clinton/Gore administration and Congress worked
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A post mortem for the Communications Decency Act
Berghel, Hal
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, Volume 27 (4)
Association for Computing Machinery – Dec 1, 1997
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