Final decision - COPA deemed unconstitutinal - GoFuckYourself.com

blogman9 · 02-10-2009, 02:36 PM

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Quote: WASHINGTON ? The government lost its final attempt Wednesday to revive a federal law intended to protect children from sexual material and other objectionable content on the Internet.
The Supreme Court said it won?t consider reviving the Child Online Protection Act, which lower federal courts struck down as unconstitutional. The law has been embroiled in court challenges since it passed in 1998 and never took effect.
It would have barred Web sites from making harmful content available to minors over the Internet.
A federal appeals court in Philadelphia ruled that would violate the First Amendment, because filtering technologies and other parental control tools are a less restrictive way to protect children from inappropriate content online.
The act was passed the year after the Supreme Court ruled that another law intended to protect children from explicit material online ? the Communications Decency Act ? was unconstitutional.
The Bush administration had pressed the justices to take the case. They offered no comment on their decision to reject the government?s appeal.
Five justices who ruled against the Internet blocking law in 2004 remain on the court.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090121/...ernet_blocking

pornguy · 02-10-2009, 02:41 PM

Good. But will the next one be even harder to deal with?

jakethedog · 02-10-2009, 02:51 PM

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PornMD · 02-10-2009, 03:01 PM

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Snake Doctor · 02-10-2009, 03:04 PM

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The Duck · 02-10-2009, 03:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Snake Doctor

Now if they'll just say the same thing about 2257

kmanrox · 02-10-2009, 03:06 PM

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