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Let's go back to 1996.

You know, Seinfeld friends, the Simpsons were still good, and the World Wide Web was the Wow Wow West. There were still great fortunes to be made and a lot of freedom, maybe too much.

Congress was very worried about one thing.

That's Jared Schroeder.

He's a professor at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, SMU.

He studies free expression and emerging technologies.

There's a famous Time magazine cover, and it's got the words in big letters, cyber porn.

This new thing, the World Wide Web, was open and free. For the first time, nearly everyone had

knowledge at their fingertips and the freedom to connect with people all over the world.

But that freedom also meant easy access to obscene and indecent content to anyone with internet access, including children.

The very same stuff I try to keep my kids from not seeing today, right, 25 years later.

Congress's solution, the Communication Decency Act, or CDA, which passed in 1996.

One of the goals of the law was to keep children from watching sexually explicit content on the web.

The law was meant to try to limit the ability of children to have access to indecent and obscene content.

If something is obscene, is not protected by the First Amendment and the government can regulate it all it wants. But if it's indecent but not obscene,

the government generally cannot regulate it. It is protected by the First Amendment. So putting

limitations on indecent content into the law kind of triggered a First Amendment

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