With Its Ruling in Reno V

question 29

Multiple Choice

With its ruling in Reno v. ACLU in 1997, the Supreme Court invalidated a federal law passed to protect minors from "indecent" and "patently offensive" communications via the Internet. What was the Court's rationale in its invalidation of the federal law?

• A) The Internet is impossible to police.
• B) To restrict Internet speech in the United States would also restrict it in other countries.
• C) In denying minors access to potentially harmful speech, the law suppressed a large amount of speech that adults have a constitutional right to receive.
• D) The Internet is no standard group or vehicle by which to define "decency," much less to enforce the standard.
• E) Control of Internet speech is a role for the state governments, not the federal government.

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