Doesn the CDA merely attempt to channel indecent speech on the Internet?
The CDA is extremely ambiguous on this point–with the result that the only safe thing to do is to avoid controversial speech entirely, as many users are already doing. Unlike laws pertaining to telephone, TV and radio, which clearly spell out what is safe (take a credit card, broadcast after ten p.m.), the CDA as written gives absolutely no guidance. None of the methods of channeling decreed for other media works well, or at all, on the Net. The only rational solution for channeling speech on the Net is the parental control solution the Congress rejected even as it was mandating the V-chip: promote the use of child-safe ISP providers and local software to screen undesirable speech.
