He stood up to Senator Jim Exon's amendment to the 1996 Communications Decency Act. The amendment would have criminalized the transmission of "indecent" materials over the Internet:
[T]he law could even have criminalized the online distribution of Gingrich's first novel, 1945, in which a "pouting sex kitten"—who is also a Nazi—seduces a White House aide in order to extract classified information. It would also have prohibited most non-Will Smith forms of hip-hop. "[The amendment] is clearly a violation of free speech and it's a violation of the right of adults to communicate with each other," Gingrich said at the time. "I don't agree with it…"
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