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This was to protest President Clinton's signing of the Communications Decency Act of 1996. The indecency provisions of the act were struck down by the Supreme Court as unconstitutional the following year. Additional legal challenges took ten more years to come to fruition. More detail welcome in the comments on HN.


A good place to learn more about this chapter of the battles for online free speech is the Wikipedia article:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications_Decency_Act

Well, except during the upcoming blackout period.


I wanted to read more about the Communications Decency Act, but Wikipedia is blacked out. It's funny how they scrapped the act, yet choose to repeat history and here we are protesting SOPA and PIPA with another blackout 17 years later.

Thanks for sharing the link though.


Or, during the blackout period: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications_Decency_Act


Or just press escape while the page is loading.




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