Federal Laws
With a few exceptions, the free speech provisions of the First Amendment bar federal, state, and local governments from directly censoring the Internet. The primary exception has to do with obscenity, including child pornography, which enjoys no First Amendment protection.
Read more about this topic: Internet Censorship In The United States
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