Supreme Court Rules on Challenge to COPA

Publiux writes: "LawMeme is reporting today that the Supreme Court upheld portions of the Child Online Protection Act because using community standards to determine what could be harmful to minors was not overly broad and thus not unconstitutional. Before you stop spreading your 'sexually explicit material' online, a lower court still has to determine if the law is unconstitutional for other reasons." Snibor Eoj submits this link to coverage at Yahoo! as well. Other readers link to AP coverage running at NandoTimes and the decision itself (PDF).

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So now the question is...

[Dimensio]

Will the FBI try to have foreign parties prosecuted for violating COPA? After all, it works for DMCA and with COPA they only need to have a website that can be accessed from a US IP, they don't need to be offering any services.

Freedom of Speech: 0 Censors: 1

[Anomolous Cow Herd]

This ruling is complete and utter bullshit. I can't believe that a so-called "strict constructionist" court would allow such a blatant trampling of our rights to free speech.

I'm about to make a big admission here: I work in the porn industry. I have a wife and 2 children that I have to feed and provide for for the next dozen years. These laws are totally misguided and are simply based on the will of a Christian fundamentalist minority that controlls Congress and wants, no, needs to see me out of a job and my family starve. This is just simply wrong, not to mention bad science.

Bad science how, you ask? Well, take my family for example. I can remember several occaisions where I have caught my 7-year-old daughter or my 11-year-old son watching some of the pornographic videos we have laying around the house, and there is absolutely nothing wrong with them! They were enjoying it! The only reason the governement passes these laws is because they want to keep us from expanding our market to children, for some misguided moralistic crusade. I envision a day when we will be able to distribute our videos at a special low rate on the playgrounds of America. And frankly, my kids' future college educations ain't getting any cheaper.