Or if you have any suggestions, comments, or criticisms, please let me know via email . Bills already introduced try to control commercial email. But rather than trying to control Internet content by censorship laws, Congress should provide a simple tool that enhances technological solutions to unwanted material, and challenge the Internet community to bring unwanted material under control. Just like digital technology, with its ability to make perfect copies at little or no cost, has substantially affected copyright law, the internet has established a new regime for the distribution of works. It is hard to avoid unwanted material while trying to find what you really want.
Material can be unwanted for a variety of reasons.
Adults may also find indecent material unwanted. But the difficulty with the CDA was that it tried to block the distribution of material based on its content, with content providers unsure whether material is indecent or not, or how to be sure that it cannot reach children while allowing adults to access it anonymously. As part of the CDA legislative history, the Supreme Court case FCC v. Pacifica is cited for its discussion of indecency and for the proposition that indecency can be regulated, at least in some electronic communications contexts. An alternative solution to the problem of receiving unwanted material is to have the supplier of material indicate its nature in a way that can be reviewed by the user or a filter before viewing the actual material. Filters were proposed by the opponents of the CDA as an alternative means for preventing indecent material from reaching children.