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in Roth V. US, Roth was being punished for mailing an obscene book and obscene circulars and advertising
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in Miller V. California, the Appellant was convicted of mailing unsolicited sexually explicit material, which is a violation of Cali.'s statute that approximately incorporated the obscenity test formulated in Memoirs v. Massachusetts
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Communications Decency Act of 1996
The law, originally proposed by Senator James Exon to protect children from obscenity on the Internet, ended up making it punishable by fines of up to $250,000 to post indecent language on the Internet anywhere that a minor could read it. -
Child Online Protection Act (COPPA)
enacted by Congress in 2000 to address concerns about children's access to obscene or harmful content over the Internet
