Plaintiffs principally challenge two sections of the Act. Section 502 or "the indecency provision", provides in part that anyone who, "by means of a telecommunications device," "makes, creates, or solicits" and "initiates the transmission" of any material "which is obscene or indecent, knowing that the recipient of the communication is under 18 years of age," "shall be criminally fined or imprisoned." Section 502, or "the patently offensive provision", makes it a crime to use an "interactive computer service" to "send" or "display in a manner available" to a person under age 18, any material that in context, depicts or describes, in terms patently offensive as measured by contemporary community standards, sexual or excretory activities or organs ...

Plaintiffs also challenge Section 223(a)(2) and Section 223(d)(2), which makes it a crime for anyone to "knowingly permit any telecommunications facility under his control to be used for any activity prohibited" in Sections 223(a)(1)(B) and 223(d)(1).

Finally, plaintiffs challenge 18 U.S.C. Section 1462, as amended by the Act, which prohibits the sending and receiving of information by any means regarding "where, how, or of whom, or by what means" "any drug, medicine, article, or thing designed, adapted, or intended for producing abortion . . . may be obtained or made."

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