Communications Decency Act case.

[DEMOREP1 at aol.com]

For the EM folks who are electronically libeling each other using certain
words and phrases over the internet (see "libel" in your dictionary), I note
that the U.S. Supreme Court has today taken jurisdiction of a case involving
the constitutionality of the below (excerpt from news report)---

    Signed into law by President Clinton on Feb. 8, [1996], the
Communications Decency Act makes it a crime to make ''indecent'' or
''patently offensive'' words or pictures available online where children can
find them.

    Violators could get up to two years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
---- end of news report excerpt
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Odds are about a billion to one that the court will rule that the CDA
violates the First Amendment using its numerous void-for-vagueness precedents
regarding such subjective words as ''indecent'' (which is in the eye and mind
of the beholder).

If the court upholds the CDA, then free speech is finished in the U.S.
pending some serious developments.