The law was finally abolished in 1997 by the Supreme Court since it was considered against freedom of speech and therefore non-constitutional. In 1995 the American Senate passed the Communications Decency Act, which banned the spreading of the obscene material on the internet and established fines and prison penalties to whoever put that material within reach of anyone under 18. Although its objective was pornography in general and not specifically child pornography, its coverage by Time magazine, July 1,1995, with a cover page which read CYBERPORNO!, ( available at http:/ caused a great impact on public opinion, so much so that the magazine later minimized the results of the research. This report was carried out by researchers at the Carnegie-Mellon Foundation and first appeared in the Georgetown Law Journal. One of the first studies that attracted my attention was the report "Marketing Pornography on the Information Superhighway: a Survey of 917,410 Images, Description, Short Stories and Animations Downloaded 8.5 Million Times by Consumers in Over 2000 Cities in Forty Countries, Provinces and Territories". The work which preceded the lecture allowed me to perceive the complexity of the problem and at the same time motivated me to continue the research I had already started about the subject. In April this year the "Latin American Parliamentary Front against Sexual and Commercial Child Exploitation", asked me to give a talk before the Uruguayan Congress on "Child Pornography and the Internet".
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