Censorship and the Communications Decency Act Censorship: suppression of words, images, or ideas that are “offensive”. Offensive: giving painful or unpleasant situations. These two words can easily be looked up and defined when having to use them in a paper, but trying to describe what should be censored and what is offensive is a daunting task. There have always been huge debates over censorship that aims at the First amendment and whether it is constitutional …showed first 75 words of 1666 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1666 total…decided that the COPA was written too broadly, but the government expressed their concern over protecting minors from offensive material. The Communications Decency Act attempted to regulate boundaries by censoring the Internet and defining what “offensive” was. This act will never not face scrutiny because it does the one thing that Americans pride themselves on the First Amendment and the stipulation that “Congress shall make no law…abridging freedom of speech, or of the press.”