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US Report: Senate passes CDA II, filtering measure
News The "Communications Decency Act II," as the harmful-to-minors bill has come to be known, is sponsored by Senator Dan Coats of Illinois. In a 9-0 ruling last year, the Supreme Court struck down the earlier Communications Decency Act on the grounds...
[July 24, 1998, 10:33]
US Report: CDA II looking strong
News A similar law, the Communications Decency Act, was struck down last year by the Supreme Court as being unconstitutional. Though civil liberties groups had made common cause with industry to fight the original Communications Decency Act in 1996 and...
[September 25, 1998, 10:40]
Judge upholds COPA injunction
News Reed's ruling repeatedly refers to the Supreme Court's 1997 ruling striking down the Communications Decency Act on First Amendment grounds. Mike Oxley, R-Ohio, has been informally known as "CDA II," after the Communications Decency Act.
[February 2, 1999, 9:10]
Bloggers celebrate court ruling
News The unanimous ruling appears to be the first to make clear that a 1996 law called the Communications Decency Act protects not only providers, but also users of online services who redistribute content.
[November 21, 2006, 8:11]
AOL's immunity from child porn to set UK precedent
News The Florida state Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the Communications and Decency Act (CDA) gives ISP's immunity from prosecution for illegal information disseminated by users. Under an Amendment to the 1996 Defamation Act intended to protect...
[March 9, 2001, 14:45]
Net-porn filtering hit with lawsuits
News They succeeded in derailing major portions of both the US' Communications Decency Act -- which would have made it a felony to deliver indecent material over the Net -- and the Child Online Protection Act (COPA) -- which would outlaw companies that...
[March 21, 2001, 8:29]
US Report: Commerce subcommittee passes 'CDA II'
News Cyber-issues watchers have also pointed out that 263 members of Congress both voted in favour of the original Communications Decency Act (attached to the broader Telecommunications Deregulation Act of 1996) and in favour of the online posting of...
[September 18, 1998, 9:50]
Broadband TV could spark tighter Web controls
News MPs of all parties were in broad agreement that Ofcom needed to enforce standards of taste and decency on TV, but that it would be wrong to give it similar controls over Internet content. When the government formulated the Communications Act...
[December 6, 2004, 11:15]
CDA all over again as US passes 'enforced safety' in schools
News The American Civil Liberties Union, the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Electronic Privacy Information Center were among those to slam the proposal as a replay of the ill-fated Communications Decency Act, which sought to outlaw the...
[June 26, 1998, 9:00]
AOL wins 'hostile code' ruling
News The court affirmed the lower court's definition of "information" under Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. In that case, the court held that the decency law shielded AOL and other ISPs from claims related to editorial content on their...
[January 23, 2003, 14:30]
Where the lobbying power lies
News It's well-known that after landmark events like the Microsoft antitrust trial — and, to a lesser extent, the Communications Decency Act, Y2K liability caps and encryption export limits — technology companies sought to change their relationship...
[March 29, 2006, 18:05]
Free speech online finding limits
News In 1997, the US Supreme Court readily struck down the onerous Communications Decency Act, ruling that it would hinder free speech on the Internet. Most of the controversy revolves around the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 (DMCA), a law...
[November 30, 2001, 12:23]
False feedback okay - court
News The federal law cited in the ruling was enacted as part of the Communications Decency Act, itself part of the 1996 Telecommunications Act. Be careful when reading feedback left in online auctions: eBay and similar Web sites are not required to...
[February 10, 2004, 10:05]
Analysis: US lawmakers in Web-regulating frenzy
News Among the most popular movements is support for the "mini-CDA," a state version of the federal Communications Decency Act, which banned transmitting smut over the Internet if it could be intercepted by minors.
[March 31, 1998, 7:00]
US Report: Senate passes Net tax ban
News The amendment was patterned on last year's Communications Decency Act, which would have banned public display of materials deemed "indecent," but not obscene. The Internet Tax Freedom Act cleared the upper chamber after nearly a week of debate in...
[October 9, 1998, 10:42]
US government loses crypto ruling
News It's probably the most significant decision affecting the Internet since the Supreme Court struck down the Communications Decency Act," said David Sobel, legal counsel to the Electronic Privacy Information Centre.
[May 7, 1999, 14:34]
Aussie censors zap 27 sites
News IIA's Coroneos is much more bullish about the Net content regulations -- and exasperated about the way they have been portrayed overseas, particularly in the US, as an Antipodean version of the unconstitutional Communications Decency Act.
[March 20, 2000, 9:13]
Why Does Google Publish Libel?
Talkback Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (USA), 1996. This Act specifically states that "no provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker. "At a time when Google proposes to amass ever more...
[June 8, 2007, 1:35]
Jane Wakefield: The week that was
News The government did have the decency to ask the industry what they thought of the idea, and this week ISPs began to state their opposition. While the ecommerce bill has been grabbing the headlines, a little Act of Parliament called the Interception...
[September 3, 1999, 7:00]
A-rockin' and a-rollin' for Internet peace
News Supreme Court struck down the Communications Decency Act. The Electronic Frontier Foundation held its second annual Fillmore fund-raiser one year after the U.S. The non-profit organisation lobbies Silicon Valley for high-tech libertarian causes.
[June 29, 1998, 8:59]
