Essays Tagged: "Communications Decency Act"
Internet and Internet Security
n does not.Legislative regulation of the Internet would not be a good thing for ourgovernment. "The Communications Decency Act" is an amendment that stopsthe Internet from becoming a computer "red lig ... own little world. The environment that the'cyberpunks' want is a way to do whatever they want. The CommunicationsDecency Act is an attempt of the government to control their "free attitude"displayed ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science > Internet and networking
Censorship in America
of censorship or totally make the Internet free and open to all. Bills such as Sentor James Exon's Communications Decency Act which would punish any person who makes available any indecent communicat ... ny person who makes available any indecent communications in any form. Another similiar bill is the Communications Act of 1995, introduced by Representative Cox of California and Representative Wyden ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Communication Studies > The Media
Communications Decency Act, The Fight For Freedom of Speech on the Internet
part of the bill. According tohttp://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ query/z?c104:s.652.enr:, which has the CommunicationsDecency Act on-line for public viewing,: 'Whoever uses an Internet service to send to ... I sent them is a smaller version of this one:'To whom it may concern,I am writing to you about the Communications Decency Act. I believe the act isunconstitutional. Amendment I states: 'Congress shal ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science > Computer Ethics
Internet Censoship
this process, however, to hundreds of computer illiterate Congressmen.The Congress passed the CDA, Communications Decency Act, and was immediately ridiculed across the nation. Not in recent memory ha ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science > Internet and networking
Internet Censorship
constraints to Internet surfing. The Internet Censorship Bill of 1995, also known as the Exon/Coats Communications Decency Act, has been introduced in the U.S. Congress. It would make it a criminal of ... ndecent, or to send anything indecent with 'intent to annoy, abuse, threaten, or harass' ('Stop the Communications ...' n.p.). The goal of this bill is to try to make all public discourse on the Inter ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science > Internet and networking
Internet Regulation, Computer, Internet, Privacy
es not. Legislativeregulation of the Internet would be an appropriate functionof the government.The Communications Decency Act is an amendment whichprevents the information superhighway from becoming ... elf-regulating environment desired by the cyberpunks isan opportunity to do whatever they want. The CommunicationsDecency Act is an attempt on part of the government tocontrol their 'free attitude' di ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science > Internet and networking
Cyberspace Freedom
tion dating back to the very founding of democracyin this country. With the passage of the 1996 Telecommunications Act, Congress has preparedto turn the Internet from one of the greatest resources of ... minal prosecutionwill close the gates on anything but the most tame information and discussions.The Communications Decency Act calls for two years of jail time for anyone caughtusing "indecent" langua ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science
The Communications Decency Act
The Communications Decency Act that was signed into law by President Clinton over a year ago is clearly ... the fact that the government is infringing on our freedom of speech, 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 in ... introduced the first bill towards regulating online porn. This was the first incarnation of the Telecommunications Reform Bill.On April 7, 1995, Senator Leahy, a Democrat from Vermont, introduces bill ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science > Internet and networking
Propaganda in the Online Free Speech Campaign, Propaganda and Mass Communication
In February 1996, President Bill Clinton signed into law the Telecommunications Act of 1996, the first revision of our country's communications laws in 62 years. Th ... t has been greeted with primarily positive responses by most people and companies. Most of the Telecommunications act sets out to transform the television, telephone, and related industries by loweri ... eating law that corresponds with the current technology of today and tomorrow. One part of the Telecommunications act, however, is designed to create regulatory barriers within computer networks, and ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Communication Studies > The Media
Telecommunications Act of 1996
In an attempt to reign-in the explosion of telecommunication technology, congress passed the Telecommunications Act of 1996. This massive act comprehensively addresses virtually every current aspec ... hensively addresses virtually every current aspect of telecommunications. It is the first major telecommunications legislation enacted since the Communications Act of 1934, which essentially establish ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law
Free Speech Online: Right or Privilege?
highest protection under free speech under the first amendment. This decision was a revision of the Communications Decency Act (CDA) that was passed in 1996. Referring to the internet, although well i ... s global, decentralized medium" (Center For Democracy & Technology 1). This revision was called Communications Decency Act. Such a huge barrier was broken because the internet has information on a ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science
Internet Regulation: Policing Cyberspace.
not. Legislative regulation of the Internet would be an appropriate function of the government.The Communications Decency Act is an amendment which prevents the information superhighway from becoming ... lf-regulating environment desired by the cyberpunks is an opportunity to do whatever they want. The Communications Decency Act is an attempt on part of the government to control their "free attitude" ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science > Computer Ethics
This essay covers different aspects of censorship such as school sex censorship, book censorship and even library censorship. Includes references and standard MLA
ment regulations seemed somewhat lax; in February 1996, a notorious bit of legislation known as the Communications Decency Act (CDA) was passed, in an attempt to limit the content available on the Int ... s of communication will not necessarily apply in this medium. There are no physical locations where communications take place, making it difficult, if not impossible to determine where violations of t ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights
This essay deals more with the negative side of the internet and how censorship should be dealt with concerning others especially children.
US government attempted to pass a law against offensive material on the internet in the form of the Communications Decency Act (CDA). But the ACLU sued and last June the Supreme Court decided it contr ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science > Internet and networking
Internet censorship.
rmation medium. Proponents of 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 Inte ... anization was successful in lobbying for another similar bill co-authored by Senator Exon named the Communications Decency Act of 1996 which passed as part of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 (Telco ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science > Internet and networking
"The Lost Fight", by William F. Buckley, Jr. and "Only the Force of Law Can Deter Pornographers", by Jim Exon: Opinions over the controversy of pornography and laws.
n help protect children from illegal sexually activity on the internet. The First Amendment and the Communications Decency Act both serve as a means of helping to prevent online harassments and ensuri ... to computers just as it does with the over the telephone conversations, the U.S. mail and broadcast communications (Exon, par. 6). Children are able to get pornographic material more easily than ever ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Controversial Issues
INTERNET CENSORSHIP
(Gordinier 5) Coalition (CIEC) is trying to challenge the Communications Decency Act, which will determine the future of free expression in cyberspace. Unfort ... not be censored; therefore, children under the age of 18 should not have access to web. In 1996 the Communications Decency Act (CDA) passed which bans the communication of "obscene or indecent" ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
Internet laws
ternet until the Federal court did something. This was that something. Two provisions of the Communications Decency Act of 1996 (CDA or Act) seek to protect minors from harmful material on the ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science
Cyberporn on the Internet
Cyber Porn on the Internet?My stand on this very debatable topic is NO. Since the enactment of the Communications Decency Act, it is now a criminal act to use of any computer network to display indec ... nk legislation like the CDA betrays that hope and is unconstitutional.I think this because computer communications networks, that constitute the internet, are nothing more than powerful engines of spe ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays
The Supreme Court case of Reno v. ACLU
and was the Supreme Court's first 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 ... y basis, this court decision plays a large role in the everyday lives of millions of Americans.With communications web sites, such as MySpace, Facebook, and Twitter, (all having millions of users) peo ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Law > Cases