Cda

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From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:

  CDA
       Compound Document Architecture (DEC)
       
       

From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:



  CDA
       Communications Decency Act (Internet, USA)
       
       

From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:

  CDA /C-D-A/ The "Communications Decency Act" of 1996, passed on {Black
     Thursday} as section 502 of a major telecommunications reform bill. The
     CDA made it a federal crime in the USA to send a communication which is
     "obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, or indecent, with intent to annoy,
     abuse, threaten, or harass another person." It also threatened with
     imprisonment anyone who "knowingly" makes accessible to minors any
     message that "describes, in terms patently offensive as measured by
     contemporary community standards, sexual or excretory activities or
     organs".
  
     While the CDA was sold as a measure to protect minors from the
     putative evils of pornography, the repressive political aims of the bill
     were laid bare by the Hyde amendment, which intended to outlaw
     discussion of abortion on the Internet.
  
     To say that this direct attack on First Amendment free-speech rights
     was not well received on the Internet would be putting it mildly. A
     firestorm of protest followed, including a February 29th mass
     demonstration by thousands of netters who turned their {home page}s
     black for 48 hours. Several civil-rights groups and
     computing/telecommunications companies mounted a constitutional
     challenge. The CDA was demolished by a strongly-worded decision handed
     down in 8th-circuit Federal court and subsequently affirmed by the U.S.
     Supreme Court on 26 June 1997 (`White Thursday'). See also {Exon}.
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  CDA
       
          1.  {Compound Document Architecture}.
       
          2.  {Communications Decency Act}.