[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 32, Number 24 (Monday, June 17, 1996)]
[Page 1047]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Statement on the Court Decision on the Communications Decency Act

June 12, 1996

    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 20 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 
through 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.