[82502] in Cypherpunks
CDA Overturned
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Duncan Frissell)
Thu Jun 26 10:41:30 1997
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 1997 10:17:45 -0400
To: cypherpunks@algebra.com
From: Duncan Frissell <frissell@panix.com>
Reply-To: Duncan Frissell <frissell@panix.com>
06/26/1997 10:07 EST
Court Nixes Internet Smut Provision
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Congress violated free-speech rights when it tried to curb smut on the Internet, the Supreme Court ruled today. In its first venture into cyberspace law, the court invalidated a key provision of the 1996 Communications Decency Act.
