In 1996 the US Congress passed the Communications Decency Act, banning indecency on the Internet.

* 1996 – The Communications Decency Act is passed by the U. S. Congress.

* 1996 – The U. S. Congress passes the Communications Decency Act.

* 1997 – The U. S. Supreme Court rules that the Communications Decency Act violates the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.

* 1996 – The child protection portion of the Communications Decency Act is struck down by a U. S. federal court as too broad.

* The government's unsuccessful defense of the Communications Decency Act, which culminated in the Supreme Court decision Reno v. ACLU.

The panel says that the 1996 Communications Decency Act would infringe upon the free speech rights of adults.

* July 29 – The child protection portion of the Communications Decency Act ( 1996 ) is struck down as too broad by a U. S. federal court.

Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act was not part of the original Senate legislation, but was added in conference with the House, where it had been separately introduced by Representatives Christopher Cox ( R-CA ) and Ron Wyden ( D-OR ) as the Internet Freedom and Family Empowerment Act and passed by a near-unanimous vote on the floor.

* Legislative history of the Communications Decency Act.

* Internet Library of Law and Court Decisions Court Decisions applying Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act

* Cybertelecom :: The Communications Decency Act and Sec.

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The Good Samaritan provision of the Communications Decency Act established immunity from liability for third party content on grounds of libel or slander.

* Communications Decency Act, a US law found partially unconstitutional

The current legal system in the U. S grants such forums a certain degree of protection through " Communications Decency Act, 47 U. S. C 230 " and California's Anti-SLAPP law.

Title V of the 1996 Act is the Communications Decency Act, aimed at regulating Internet indecency and obscenity, but was ruled unconstitutional by the U. S. Supreme Court for violating the First Amendment.

He voted against the death penalty, the flag desecration amendment, the balanced budget amendment, the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act, the Defense of Marriage Act, the Communications Decency Act, and the North American Free Trade Agreement.

Two of the most important laws when dealing with legal issues of online communities, especially social networking sites are Section 512c of the Digital Millennium Act and Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act.

Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act gives protection from any liability as a result from the publication provided by another party.

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Reno v. American Civil Liberties Union,, is a United States Supreme Court case in which all nine Justices of the Court voted to strike down anti-indecency provisions of the Communications Decency Act ( the CDA ), finding they violated the freedom of speech provisions of the First Amendment.

Title IV of the ADA amended the landmark Communications Act of 1934 primarily by adding section.

Regulation: The National Communications Authority ( NCA ), an independent regulator, was created in 1997, deriving its statutory framework from the NCA Act 1996.

Provision for Local Loop Unbundling was introduced in Gibraltar, under the 2006 Communications Act, similar to the UK's 2003 Communications Act.

* 1934 – The Communications Act of 1934 establishes the United States ' Federal Communications Commission ( FCC ).

It issues licenses under the Communications and Multimedia Act 1998, the Postal Services Act 1991 and the Digital Signature Act 1997.

With the development of Information and Communications Technologies, the Telecommunications Act of 1998 was replaced by the Information and Communication Technologies Act of 2001.

" Inside the M25 " and " outside the M25 " or " beyond the M25 " are used colloquially to refer to London and the provinces ; the Communications Act 2003 explicitly uses the M25 as the boundary in requiring a proportion of television programmes to be made outside the London area.

After the enactment of Communications Corporation Act 2028, it was formally established as fully owned Government Corporation called Nepal Telecommunications Corporation in B. S.

The relevant UK laws include: Data Protection Act 1998 ; Freedom of Information Act 2000 ; Environmental Information Regulations 2004 ; Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations 2003.

In 2004, the Department of Communications redefined the Electronics Communications Act, which consolidated and redefined the landscape of telecommunications licensing in South Africa ( both mobile and fixed ).

JavaScript was released by Netscape Communications in 1996 within Netscape Navigator 2. 0.

The book was reprinted in 1996 by Peer-To-Peer Communications.

In 1996, the Santa Cruz Operation finally authorised the release of the twenty-year-old 6th Edition source code ( along with the source code of other versions of " Ancient UNIX "), and the full code plus the 1977 version of the commentary was published by Peer-To-Peer Communications ( ISBN 1-57398-013-7 ).

For purposes of regulation by the Federal Communications Commission under the U. S. Communications Act of 1934 and Telecommunications Act of 1996, the definition of telecommunications service is " the offering of telecommunications for a fee directly to the public, or to such classes of users as to be effectively available directly to the public, regardless of the facilities used.

Communications of the ACM, 1996 portal.

Among the companies that were bought or merged with WorldCom were Advanced Communications Corp. ( 1992 ), Metromedia Communication Corp. ( 1993 ), Resurgens Communications Group ( 1993 ), IDB Communications Group, Inc ( 1994 ), Williams Technology Group, Inc. ( 1995 ), and MFS Communications Company ( 1996 ).

On January 3, 1996, the 104th Congress of the United States amended or repealed sections of the Communications Act of 1934 with the new Telecommunications Act of 1996.

The Telecommunication Act 1996 and Communications Act of 1934 had two major changes: the new act was less technologically biased and offered less regulation.

Because of these effects, the FCC designed the Communications Act 1996 “ to provide for a pro-competitive, de-regulatory national policy framework designed to accelerate rapidly private sector deployment of advanced information technologies and services to all Americans by opening all telecommunications markets to competition ..." The Telecommunication Act of 1996 also added and changed some rules to account for the emerging internet.

This provision was carried through into the Telecommunications Act of 1996 by incorporation of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended to Section 325 ( c ).

* Communications Act of 1934, as Amended by the Telecommunications Act of 1996