THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
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For Immediate Release June 12, 1996
STATEMENT BY THE PRESIDENT
The Justice Department is reviewing today's three judge panel court
decision on the Communications Decency Act. The opinion just came down
today, and the statute says we have twenty days to make an appeal.
I remain convinced, as I was when I signed the bill, that our Constitution
allows us to help parents by enforcing this Act to prevent children from
being exposed to objectionable material transmitted though computer
networks. I will continue to do everything I can in my Administration to
give families every available tool to protect their children from these
materials. For example, we vigorously support the development and
widespread availability of products that allow both parents and schools to
block objectionable materials from reaching computers that children use.
And we also support the industry's accelerating efforts to rate Internet
sites so that they are compatible with these blocking techniques.
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Posted on June 13, 1996