In Reno v. American Civil Liberties Union, 521 U.S.844 (1997), the Supreme Court held in a unanimous decision that provisions of the 1996 Communications Decency Act (CDA) were an unconstitutional, content-based restriction of First Amendment free speech rights.
<h3>What is
Communications Decency Act?</h3>
The Communications Decency Act of 1996 was the first noteworthy attempt by the United States Congress to material on the Internet. The United States Supreme Court unanimously threw down the act's anti-indecency sections in the landmark case Reno v. ACLU in 1997.
The CDA made it illegal for anybody to knowingly send "obscene or indecent" messages to anyone under the age of 18. It also prohibited the "knowing" display of "patently objectionable" materials in a manner "accessible" to minors under the age of 18.
The Communications Decency Act of 1996 (47 USC 223) was a contentious law that prohibited anybody utilizing interstate or communications from distributing obscene or immoral information if they knew the receiver was under the age of 18—regardless of who initiated the communications.
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