The Communications Decency Act (CDA) of 1996 was the first major attempt by the United States Congress to regulate pornographic material on the Internet.

At stake is the Government's effort to regulate sexually explicit material on the global computer network.

The District Court stated that the CDA also immunizes "interactive computer services" from liability based on efforts to self regulate material:

An attempt was made to move all regulated nuclear material to the company's new Cimarron facility at Crescent, OK.

The measure also draws on a body of court decisions about regulating "indecent" material in television or radio broadcasting.

The NRC also regulates nuclear material that is used in science, medicine and industry.

The association is among those challenging provisions of a new Federal law seeking to regulate indecent material on the Internet.

The court ruled that the 1996 law to regulate indecent material on the Internet violated the Constitution's free-speech protections and threatened to choke off the potential of the information revolution.

Preparing to decide the fate of the Government's effort to regulate sexually explicit material on the Internet, the Supreme Court heard two starkly different descriptions of the global computer network.

To regulate radiation safety, nuclear safety, and nuclear material.