»US Supreme Court: Bush's Anti-Porn law is illegal«
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  Quote: The Supreme Court on Tuesday blocked enforcement of a law intended to protect children from pornography on the Internet, saying the law probably violates free-speech guarantees.
By a 5-4 vote, the high court said 1998 legislation "likely violates the First Amendment." The court ordered parties from both sides to reconsider the issue in a lower-court trial. The ruling gives the Bush administration a chance to prove the law does not violate free-speech rights. The case tested the free-speech rights of adults against the power of Congress to control Internet commerce. The 1998 law, known as the Child Online Protection Act (COPA), never took effect. It would have authorized fines up to $50,000 for the crime of placing material that is "harmful to minors" within the easy reach of children on the Internet, according to The Associated Press. The law also would have required adults to use access codes and or other ways of registering before they could see objectionable material online, according to the AP. The case is in-my-opinion.org... v. ACLU, case no. 03-0218. posted by knn |
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| in-my-opinion.orgPoliticsPolitics and Crime (Assorted topics)US Supreme Court: Bush's Anti-Porn law is illegal |
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 this might work. There've been consistent problems with anti-porn laws suggested by MacKinnon (a radical feminist). Another radical feminist, Pat Califia, who also writes erotic fiction has been particularly upset by the bad effects of MacKinnon's law. However, this was over pornography in general. Basically MacKinnon wanted to get rid of all pornography. All Bush's law (do I have to call it that) wanted to do was to make it less likely for children to bump into internet porn by accident. I think that makes a lot of sense - and might even make search engines like google a bit easier to use... posted by fatpie42 |
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