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Appeals Court Rejects Child Online Protection Act, Again
mabesty writes "From The Washington Post: A panel of the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled yesterday that COPA restricts free speech by barring Web page operators from posting information inappropriate for minors unless they limit the site to adults. The ruling upholds an injunction blocking the government from enforcing the law." We last covered COPA when the Supreme Court handled it last year.
actually just to be on city council you have to be 21
Depends on where you are and what you are running for.
Tualatin City Council Member, Chris Bergstrom, was elected at age 18 and the current Mayor of Monmouth, Paul Evans, was also first elected to council at age 18.
Go screw yourself on the draft, congress can reinitialise it any day.
Maybe so, but currently, there is no draft , nor any real push to have it reinstated. So you can take your previous statement about being drafted and insert it where most approporiate.
Oh and drunken riots, those don't seem to happen as often in countries with much lower drinking ages such as everywhere but here.
I agree. BUT, you'll have to convince the powers that be to lower it, and THEN see if things get better. Which comes first, a lower drinking age, or less foolishness?
Pr0n on the internet doesn't harm children at all. The way *adults* react when they notice a kid seeing a naked tit ( an object he may well have been sucking on just a few years before) is what does the harm.
In other words, it's the *censorship* itself that causes the harm. Do away with it and nudity becomes harmless to one and all.
I have a shocking revelation for some of you. Most of your ancestors ran around completely or mostly naked most of their lives and as adults had sex like weasels in heat *right in front of their children.*
If such behaviour were "harmful" to children you yourself would necessarily have been harmed by generations of such behaviour, and you turned out all right, didn't you?
Oh, wait. Bad example.
KFG