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| | CIEC | Pro-CDA Members of Congress Amici Brief |
 | | The enactment of the CDA with the federal indecency standard was not, therefore, a rejection of the serious value prong of the "harmful to minors" test. |
 | | As used, the CDA's indecency test for online computer services need not make each variable a separate element, but clarifies that it is the totality of the circumstances that shall be considered in making the ultimate determination of whether the communication was "patently offensive" in the context in which it was made, disseminated, and received. |
 | | That the CDA rests the burden of compliance upon the speaker of patently offensive sexual or excretory depictions and not on the consumer of these depictions, including children, not only carries the weight of unanimous precedent, but also has the benefit of being highly practical. |
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