Communications Decency Act
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n.
A law passed as part of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 that attempted to regulate obscenity on the Internet and was effectively ruled unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
abbrv.
CDA
The Essential Law Dictionary. — Sphinx Publishing, An imprint of Sourcebooks, Inc.
Amy Hackney Blackwell.
2008.
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