U.S. judge blocks 1998 online porn law
 

PHILADELPHIA - A federal judge on Thursday dealt another blow to government efforts to control Internet pornography, striking down a 1998 U.S. law that makes it a crime for commercial Web site operators to let children access "harmful" material.

In the ruling, the judge said parents can protect their children through software filters and other less restrictive means that do not limit the rights of others to free speech.

"Perhaps we do the minors of this country harm if First Amendment protections, which they will with age inherit fully, are chipped away in the name of their protection," wrote Senior U.S. District Judge Lowell Reed Jr., who presided over a four-week trial last fall.


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He will be removed from the bench within three months.

One small step for porn, one giant leap for pornkind.

would be nice to think it was setting a pattern for the future

Finally someone with some fucking sense.

Parental accountability? In this day and age?

knowing whats on the internet it's got to be both parties the parents and the website owners working to keep children from viewing adult content. with all the shit that happens on mainstream sites and videos that are out there i'd be more worried about that kind of shit. hell if i had a child who was old enough to be able to surf the web i'd be standing over his/her shoulder the entire time they were online. none of that computer in there room type shit, you put the computer in a central location such a living room or den so that when the child is on the computer you can monitor what they are doing.

either way one big step for us more responsibility needs to be placed on the parent to protect their children, you either don't let your child use the internet unsupervised or you pay for a filtering software to block sites that you don't want your children viewing.

good quote :thumbsup

its about time someone struck a blow to the clinton/democratic dictatorship that attempted to harm our business.

Great news for once

Free Speech Rules

I guess Bush will fire him now, too

You're a funny guy.

Sponsor of COPA: Rep. Michael Oxley (R-Ohio)

Senate Majority Leader in 1998: Trent Lott (R-Mississippi)

House Speaker in 1998 Newt Gingrich (R-Georgia)

:1orglaugh

There was a similar thread yesterday

http://www.gofuckyourself.com/showthread.php?t=717098

I guess we can always blame it on Carter.

That article just reached our local paper, heh. Sounds good for me, being a Pa. resident and all.

Place the blame where it belongs, the Republican's "Contract on (oops, I mean with) America"...

signed into law: Bill Clinton (D-Arkansas)

Defended in Court: Janet Reno (D-Florida)

Only signed into law by Clinton because there was not going to be a budget without it...
http://www.epic.org/free_speech/cens..._10_15_98.html
It's the job of the AG to defend laws whether they personally agree with them or not.

Hehe, that sounds good to me

12clicks got POWN3D!!!! courtesy of Mardigras.

It would be nice to see a pattern form here.

Irregardless that the law won't hold us accountable, I still believe one should take voluntary measures of protection as an ethical business practice.

It's your choice, but if you choose to do so voluntarily, RTA will enable your site to be filtered & could ensure that this option remains voluntary if enough people utilize it.

Place this single line of code in your meta tags & that's it.

http://www.rtalabel.org/

Lol.....