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US Kicks Out Online Decency Act
News In a move being hailed as a pivotal victory for free speech and a boon to the evolution of the Internet, the Supreme Court today ruled that the Communications Decency Act violates the First Amendment , affirming two lower court rulings barring its...
[June 27, 1997, 8:53]
CDA Verdict Won't Affect UK Fight For Net Decency
News The Act, which was dismissed by the US Supreme Court as violating the First Amendment, was "too restrictive to Internet users," said Jauch, who added that "it sought to place more restrictions on the Internet than currently exist for printed...
[June 27, 1997, 12:30]
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. Passage Thursday of the main spending bill meant the decency measures made it through without debate.
[July 24, 1998, 10:33]
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]
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]
Benefits Of Breaking Free From A Desk
Blog Comment Shouldn't the title of this piece have read "Advertisement: Benefits of breaking free from a desk" If you are going to plug your product or service, at least have the decency to declare that up front.
[February 25, 2008, 7:01]
Server Problems Beleaguer Hotmail Users
Talkback It would only be common decency for them to let us know. The last time I had the same problem as I have with MSN I found out( after three weeks) that the provider had gone up the swanee! Has this happened to MSN?
[March 1, 2006, 9:25]
Tablet Trouble
Blog Comment No particular reason, nothing unusual happened, and you were just about to do something "significant" with it or about it, and without even having the decency to give up a tell-tale puff of smoke, it's gone.
[May 14, 2008, 13:42]
Bulldog
Forum Lost track of the amouth of calls I've made to them, and they haven't even had the decency to reply to my email cancelling my contract! I can't agree more.days after requesting as switch from BT and broadband connection, I'm still unable to make...
[August 9, 2006, 18:11]
Update: Heavyweights Pound BT's Patent Claim
News But decency is something BT needs tuition on according to senior IDC analyst James Eibisch. Decency? British Telecommunications may believe it owns the rights to the hyperlink technology that connects billions of pages all over the Internet, but...
[June 22, 2000, 11:15]
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]
Quotes Of The Week,June 23-27
News US Supreme Court's Justice William Kennedy criticising the case for the Communications Decency Act "It seems to me that, under your analysis, it could potentially be criminal to engage in indecent speech on a public street corner in the presence of...
[June 27, 1997, 9:37]
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. A Supreme Court's decision to shield America Online from...
[March 9, 2001, 14:45]
Net Sex Sites Wilting
News NPD said the federal Communications Decency Act is the chief reason - it's now illegal to publish "indecent" material on networks where children might gain access, causing some sites to charge an entry fee.
[July 10, 1996, 11:13]
A Third Of Net Users Hacked Or Infected
Talkback Volunteers are welcome to rejoin, and we urge internet users to reunite once again at InterGOV to help stamp down net-related crimes, through friendship, co-operation, courtesy, common decency and our excellent staff members who monitor suspicious...
[February 20, 2005, 2:58]
Rupert Goodwins' 3GSM Barcelona Diary
Blog It is early on Sunday morning and I'm not at my best, but to give the company its due it has the decency to send a cab to haul my mortal remains to the airport. Sunday 12/02/2006 It's 3GSM time, and a flock of British journalists are taking to the...
[February 17, 2006, 16:50]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog None of this reflects well on Sony, which has only the smallest thread of decency left to clothe its nakedness - at least it hasn’t threatened to take the discoverer of the rootkit to court under the Thou Shalt Do No Such Thing clauses of the...
[November 18, 2005, 17:05]
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. The drive by Internet service providers and traditional...
[December 6, 2004, 11:15]
