http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-09-69A1.pdf

Report to Congress mandated by the Child Safe Viewing Act which assesses the current state of parental control devices and other blocking technologies designed to protect children from inappropriate content on television, the Internet, and other electronic products. From the Federal Communications Commission.

http://laws.findlaw.com/us/000/07-582

5-4 Supreme Court decision that the Federal Communications Commission can penalize broadcasters for even occasional violation of so-called decent language standards but the court stopped short of deciding whether the FCC had the constitutional right to police the airwaves. From Findlaw.com.

http://www.statewatch.org/news/2009/jan/ep-study-cyber-crime.pdf

Examines the human rights aspects of the Internet and the relevant criminal law rules of the Council of Europe and the European Union. Also examines other issues of cyber-crime such as data protection rights, child pornography, terrorism, and cyberattacks. Calls for an Internet Bill of Rights for the EU. From the European Parliament and Statewatch.

http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/95-815.pdf

Provides an overview of the major exceptions to the First Amendment and how the Supreme Court has interpreted the guarantee of freedom of speech and press to provide no or only limited protection for some types of expression, such as obscenity, child pornography, and speech that advocates violence or violation of law. From the Congressional Research Service, posted by the Federation of American Scientists.

http://www.parliament.uk/commons/lib/research/rp2008/rp08-021.pdf

Discusses proposed changes to the procedures by which British films and some video games are assigned classifications. Also provides an overview of the British approach to classification of cinema and the regulation of media content in general. House of Commons Library Research Paper 08/21.

http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/95-815.pdf

Discusses the exceptions carved out by the Supreme Court to the prohibition against making any law that abridges freedom of speech or press. Examples include advocacy of violence, obscenity, child pornography, defamation, and restrictions imposed on commercial, broadcast and public employee speech. From the Congressional Research Service, posted by the Federation of American Scientists

http://www.usembassy.it/pdf/other/RL32222.pdf

Latest version of a report on the evolution of broadcast indecency regulations, recent notable cases, other recent enforcement actions, and the constitutionality of prohibiting the broadcast of indecent words. From the Congressional Research Service, posted by the State Department.

http://www.cops.usdoj.gov/mime/open.pdf?Item=1729

Describes the problem of pornography involving children on the web, the factors that increase the risk, then reviews responses to the problem and what is known about these from research and police practice. From the Justice Department Office of Community Oriented Policing Services.

http://www.usdoj.gov/ag/psc/projectsafechildhood.htm

Calls for a national initiative to safeguard children from pornographers and other online dangers. From the Justice Department.

http://hraunfoss.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-06-19A1.pdf

Details of the final ruling by the Federal Communications Commission in the matter of the Super Bowl XXXVIII halftime show wardrobe malfunction. CBS was fined a half million dollars for the violation of broadcasting obscenity regulations.