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March 23, 2007 by Geeks are Sexy | 1 comment
Yesterday, a federal court judge struck down the Child Online Protection Act (COPA) declaring that the law is “impermissibly broad and over-vague” and that it violates the principles of the First and Fifth Amendments. The judge also said that if parents wanted to protect their children against pornography, they would be better off using content filtering technologies instead of relying on an act that has no real impact on the online world.
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.
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[...] an order to permanently block enforcement of COPA on First and Fifth Amendment grounds (thanks, Kiltak). This law required content providers to verify the age of viewers if their content was “material [...]