The first attempt to protect children from material that they might stumble upon while online was: Question 5 options: A) The Decency Act of 1991 B) The Telecommunications Act of 1985 C) The Family Values Act of 1990 D) The Communications Decency Act of 1996

Option D, The Communications Decency Act of 1996, is the right answer.

Explanation:

In order to control the po-r - nographic stuff on the Internet, the Congress of the United States enacted the Communications Decency Act of in the year 1996. It was the primary response of the U. S. Congress to control children's access to minors' access to po-rnography via the Internet. In the year 1997, the Supreme Court of the United States in a milestone case of Reno v. ACLU opposed the anti-indecency requirements of the act.