indecent material

The Bible was removed from elementary and middle school shelves in a Utah school district after a parent filed a complaint under the state’s new law prohibiting “pornographic or indecent” material in schools.

In 1996, Congress passed a major telecommunications bill that made it illegal to knowingly send or display “obscene or indecent” material to people under 18.

In 1997, the Supreme Court struck down federal rules that would have made it illegal to knowingly send or display “obscene or indecent” material to people under 18, saying the rules curtailed free speech.

While much of the law involved local telephone competition, broadcast ownership, and cable television, one section—the Communications Decency Act—tried to prevent minors from accessing obscene and indecent material on the nascent internet.

He is due to say that social media companies have the ability to make uploading and sharing of indecent material "so much harder" but they "choose not to invest in the technology to eradicate it".