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The Communications Decency Act of 1996 (B) criminalized the use of computer services to send or display offensive content to minors, but the Supreme Court struck it down due to free speech concerns.
The law that criminalized the use of computer services to send or display content to anyone under the age of 18 that included "any comment, request, suggestion, proposal, image, or other communication that, in context, depicts or describes, in terms patently offensive as measured by contemporary community standards, sexual or excretory activities, or organs" is the Communications Decency Act of 1996.
This Act made it a federal crime to knowingly transmit to a minor or post on a website where a minor might visit any obscene, indecent, or patently offensive picture or text. However, it was eventually struck down by the Supreme Court in Reno v. ACLU (1997) due to concerns about free speech and the imposition of the most conservative community standards on the entire country's internet content.
It's important to note that while the Communications Decency Act attempted to regulate content on the internet that could be harmful to minors, the enforcement of such regulations proved to be challenging and controversial due to the nature of the internet and the varying definitions of what is considered "indecent" or "patently offensive" by different communities.
The subsequent Child Online Protection Act of 1998 also aimed to address similar concerns but faced legal challenges and was never fully implemented before dying out in 2009 when the Supreme Court declined to review another appeal.
