Cda Of 1996

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1. What is the scope of CDA of 1996? The CDA imposed criminal sanctions on anyone who knowingly: a. uses an interactive computer service to send to a specific person or persons under 18 years of age, or b. uses any interactive computer service to display in a manner available to a person under 18 years of age, 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. 2. Name the law to which CDA of 1996 was amended? Telecommunications Act of 1966 1. 2. 3. Explain the CDA 1996 and its relationship to a. Federal Communications Commission b. the Communications Act of 1934 and c. The Federal Radio Act of 1927 The FCC resulted from the creation of the Communications Act of 1934. The Comm Act of 1934 abolished the Federal Radio Commission and the Federal Radio Act of 1927 and transferred jurisdiction over radio licensing to the Federal Communications Commission, including in it also the telecommunications jurisdiction previously handled by the Interstate Commerce Commission. The Federal Radio Act of 1927 and the Federal Radio Commission was given the power to grant and deny licenses, and to assign frequencies and power levels for each licensee. The Federal Radio Commission was not given any official power of censorship, although programming could not include "obscene, indecent, or profane language." In theory, anything else could be aired. In practice, the Federal Radio Commission could take into consideration programming when renewing licenses, and their ability to take away a broadcaster's license enabled them to control content to some degree. 1. 2. 3. 4. Explain the powers of FCC? The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is an

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