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Capital Dividend Account - CDA

A unique account where untaxed gains are deposited within a private company.

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These untaxed gains are usually distributed to shareholders or owners without additional tax liability.


 
 

The “Communications Decency Act”, passed as section 502 of a major telecommunications reform bill on February 8th, 1996 (“Black Thursday”). 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 1996 mass demonstration by thousands of netters who turned their home pages 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.


 
Wikipedia: CDA (disambiguation)

CDA may stand for:

  • ".cda", a filename extension for a CD Audio track shortcut
  • Canadian Dental Association, an association of dentists in Canada
  • Canadian Dinghy Association
  • Capital Development Authority, Islamabad, Pakistan
  • Caran d'Ache, a famous Swiss fine arts products company.
  • Cellular Digital Accessory, a means to identify the software version of an Mobile phone.
  • Child Development Associate, the CDA Credential awarded to those in the Early Care & Education by The Council for Professional Recognition to work with Infants, Toddlers, or Preschoolers
  • Chiral Derivitizing Agent, a type of chemical designed to react with enantiomers to indicate the enantiopurity
  • Chlorproguanil hydrochloride-dapsone-artesunate, a new antimalarial drug that entered Phase III clinical trials in 2006
  • Christen-Democratisch Appèl, a political party of the Netherlands
  • Clean Dry Air, air that has been filtered and dehumidified to remove particulates and moisture so that it can be safely used in pneumatic devices or systems
  • Clinical Document Architecture, an HL7 authored health care documentation standard
  • Coeur d'Alene, a city in North Idaho
  • College Democrats of America, the national organization that oversees the direction and day-to-day management of 1300 College Democrats chapters around the country
  • Communications Decency Act, a US law which says that "No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider" and had provisions relating to letting children access pornography which were found to be unconstitutional
  • Completely Denatured Alcohol, the most heavily denatured alcohol
  • Compress Da Audio, the first MP3 warez group
  • Confidential Disclosure Agreement, another name for a non-disclosure agreement (NDA)
  • Congenital Developmental Abnormality/Abnormalities
  • Conservative Democratic Alliance, a United Kingdom pressure group
  • Co-operative Development Agency, advice agencies for people who wanted to start co-operatives set up as part of the community economic development effort in many British localities in the 1980s
  • The Cosmic Dust Analyser in the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft
  • Critical discourse analysis, a sociopolitically oriented approach within Discourse Analysis
  • Criminal defense attorney
  • The Child Detection Agency from Pixar's Monsters, Inc.
  • CD-Action - polish magazine about PC games.
  • Contract Disputes Act

 
 

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