RENO V. AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION

FACTS OF CASE

• Who: Minors(teens)
• When: 1997/ America
• What: Not providing obscene materials to minors
• How: Minors look up sexual content
• Why: To keep minors safe from sexual content

Issue

Is the regulation of the Internet for indecent material constitutional?

More issues

Two of the constitutional statuary provisions enacted to protect minors from "indecent" and "patently offensive" communications on the Internet.

The regulation is vague, because it does not provide a clear definition of indecent and patently offensive expressions on the Internet. It is not clear that both indecent and obscene materials are being outlawed or that one is meant over the other.

So to sum it up they are not allowed to view any sexual content as a minor, but young adults (18)can view those contents on their own property(home) not on any public/government property (school, parks, libraries, etc.). So unless 18 no minor under that age will be able or allowed to access those contents at all. That has now became a law in many states.

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