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U.S. Judge Blocks 1998 Online Porn Law

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By Maryclaire Dale, AP
22 March 2007 @ 06:21 pm EST

The 1998 law followed the Communications Decency Act of 1996, Congress' first attempt to regulate online pornography. The Supreme Court in 1997 deemed key portions of that law unconstitutional because it was too vague and trampled on adults' rights.

COPA narrowed the restrictions to commercial Web sites and defined indecency more specifically.

"This is the second time Congress has tried this, and both times the courts have struck it down," said the ACLU's Chris Hansen, a lead attorney on the case. "I don't see how Congress could write a constitutional statute."

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commenteer

March
22nd, 2007
11:25am

The writer of this article demonstrates how the media is irresponsible. The porn part was just a side-affect of something much more important -- that people under 13 were barred from seeing educational material, art, using message boards, etc, which limited their right of free speech based on some arbitrary marker such as age. It's pretty obvious the writer of this article had an agenda, and such things shouldn't be allowed in journalism.

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