[Publib] "COPA Online Porn Law Struck Down" (news item)..

[Michael McCulley]

COPA Online Porn Law Struck Down
By Lisa Vaas
March 22, 2007 	

A Federal court judge on March 22 struck down the Child Online Protection
Act (PDF), saying it violates the First and Fifth Amendments and is
"impermissibly broad and over-vague."

U.S. District Judge Lowell Reed of Philadelphia wrote in his finding that he
sympathizes with Congress and its desire to protect children from sexually
explicit materials on the Web, but that the "flawed statute" neither
protected rights guaranteed by the Bill of Amendments, nor was as effective
as filters now available. 

Source:
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2106848,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03119TX1K0000594

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