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This was to protest President Clinton's signing of the Communications Decency Act of 1996. The indecency provisions of the act were struck down by the Supreme C
by delinka 15y ago
This was to protest President Clinton's signing of the Communications Decency Act of 1996. The indecency provisions of the act were struck down by the Supreme Court as unconstitutional the following year. Additional legal challenges took ten more years to come to fruition. More detail welcome in the comments on HN.
- gojomo 15y agoA good place to learn more about this chapter of the battles for online free speech is the Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications_Decency_Act http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications_Decency_Act Well, except during the upcoming blackout period.
- McP 15y agoOr, during the blackout period: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications_Decency_Act http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications_Decency_Act
- valisystem 15y agoOr just press escape while the page is loading.
- nattyackermann 15y agoI wanted to read more about the Communications Decency Act, but Wikipedia is blacked out. It's funny how they scrapped the act, yet choose to repeat history and here we are protesting SOPA and PIPA with another blackout 17 years later. Thanks for sharing the link though.