Wired News: Court Nixes Child Net Porn Law: A federal appeals court has ruled that a law meant to safeguard children against Internet pornography is riddled with problems that make it "constitutionally infirm." A three-judge panel of the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Thursday that the Child Online Protection Act restricted free speech by barring website operators from posting information inappropriate for minors unless they limited the site to adults. The ruling upheld an injunction blocking the government from enforcing the law.
Interesting.
The appeals court seems to have been rather determined to get rid of this law. Of course, now it's on track to go back to the Supreme Court, this time after they will have likely decided to uphold CIPA. To be sure, since COPA isn't a fiscal pursestrings law, it's more likely to have problems at the higher level, now that they're going to have to deal with the merits of the law. (Assuming they decide to hear the case. If the Court rejects the case, then it doesn't matter.)
Posted by iain at March 07, 2003 06:55 PMComments
