1、Congressional Research Service The Library of CongressCRS Report for CongressReceived through the CRS Web97-660 AJuly 1, 1997Internet Indecency: The Supreme Court Decisionon the Communications Decency Act(name redacted)Legislative AttorneyAmerican Law DivisionSummaryIn Reno v. American Civil Liberti
2、es Union, No. 96-511 (June 26, 1997), theSupreme Court, by a 7-2 vote, declared unconstitutional two provisions of theCommunications Decency Act (CDA) that prohibited indecent communications to minorson the Internet. The CDA is Title V of the Telecommunications Act of 1996, P.L. 104-104. Section 502
3、 of the Act rewrote 47 U.S.C. 223(a) and added subsections (d)through (h) to 47 U.S.C. 223. It did not amend subsections (b) or (c), which restrictcommercial dial-a-porn services. In Reno v. ACLU, the Supreme Court struck down 223(a) in part and 223(d) in whole.The Statute47 U.S.C. 223(a). Section 2
4、23(a)(1)(A) makes it a crime, by means of atelecommunications device, knowingly to transmit a communication that is obscene, lewd,lascivious, filthy, indecent, with intent to annoy, abuse, threaten, or harass anotherperson. Section 223(a)(1)(B) makes it a crime, by means of a telecommunications devi
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