Essays Tagged: "CDA"

Communications Decency Act, The Fight For Freedom of Speech on the Internet

ctures would not be available. The bill says these sites showindecent pictures.The next part of the CDA has everybody in a big legal fit. We, concerned Internetusers, took the writers of this bill to ... the courts? After all was said and done, wehave learned that passing unconstitutional laws like the CDA is not the exception but therule these days in Washington, DC.Next, the people responsible for g ...

(6 pages) 112 0 3.5 Dec/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science > Computer Ethics

The Communications Decency Act

eech, may it be indecent or not. The Communications Decency Act, also know by Internet users as the CDA, is an Act that aims to remove indecent or dangerous text, lewd images, and other things deemed ... angerous text, lewd images, and other things deemed inappropriate from public areas of the net. The CDA is mainly out to protect children.In the beginning, the anonymity of the Internet caused it to b ...

(5 pages) 80 0 5.0 Jan/1996

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science > Internet and networking

Propaganda in the Online Free Speech Campaign, Propaganda and Mass Communication

ot been greeted with admirable commentary. This one part is called the Communications Decency Act (CDA), and it has been challenged in court from the moment it was passed into law. Many of the oppon ... has been challenged in court from the moment it was passed into law. Many of the opponents of the CDA have taken their messages to the Internet in order to gain support for their cause, and a small ...

(20 pages) 251 0 4.6 Jul/1996

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Communication Studies > The Media

Internet censorship.

f Internet censorship such as Senator Jim Exon (D-NE), co-author of the Communications Decency Act (CDA), are in favor of putting strict laws into place regulating the Internet in order to protect chi ... Telecommunications Act of 1996 (Telcom Act) and was signed into law by President Bill Clinton. The CDA allows the government to regulate and censor speech on the Internet as explained by James Plumme ...

(14 pages) 269 1 4.5 Mar/2004

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science > Internet and networking

Office Automation and Group Collaboration

t and appear almost instantly), access to shared hard drives for information exchange and access to CDA (Corporate Dental Application), this is the system where all the customer data, appointments, an ...

(3 pages) 35 0 0.0 Dec/2008

Subjects: Businesss Research Papers > Management

The Supreme Court case of Reno v. ACLU

st case dealing with the issue of cyberspace. The case involves the Communications Decency Act (the CDA), which makes it against the law for minors to view "obscene or indecent" messages or images on ... e president signed the bill, the American Civil Liberties Union (the ACLU) filed a suit against the CDA.2 The ACLU is an organization designed to protect American citizens' civil liberties, and it fel ...

(2 pages) 20 1 2.0 Nov/2009

Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law > Cases

Dijk, T. (2001). Multidisciplinary CDA: A plea for diversity. In R. Wodak, & M. Meyer (Eds.), Methods of critical discourse analysis. (pp. 95-121). London: SAGE Publications Ltd.

Dijk, T. (2001). Multidisciplinary CDA: A plea for diversity. In R. Wodak, & M. Meyer (Eds.), Methods of critical discourse analysi ... ticle, aims at creating principles and workable instructions for doing critical discourse analysis (CDA). He is focusing on the socio-cognitive interface of discourse analysis. Also he is stating that ... e with approaches depending on what the researcher wants to investigate.However, the functions that CDA needs are stated clearly; not in a form of tips, but more like suggestions. Levels and dimension ...

(8 pages) 1 0 0.0 Apr/2014

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Linguistics