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The Communications Decency Act of 1996 (CRS Report for Congress)

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Release Date March 5, 1997
Report Number 96-321
Authors Henry Cohen, American Law Division
Source Agency Congressional Research Service
Summary:

This report summarizes the Communications Decency Act of 1996, which makes it a crime to make obscene material available by computer to anyone, or to make indecent material available by computer to minors. It also expands the laws that prohibit transmitting obscene or indecent material by means of telecommunications devices, and restricts sexually-oriented programming on cable television.