Ohio Net Censorship Law Struck Down

rfc1394 writes "C|Net reports that a federal judge has struck down as unconstitutional a portion of an Ohio statute which attempted to prevent minors from seeing material which would be 'harmful' to them, but was so overbroad that it would have covered a considerable amount of material which is legal for adults to view. Basically, if a website operator had reason to believe the material they were showing was visible to minors, and if the material was considered to be harmful to them, they would be in violation of the law. Since about 1/6 of the users of the Internet are minors, it's trivial to argue that anyone running a website would be aware that the material they have is visible to minors even if they had no intention of doing so."

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I smell....a troll!

[Mr. Underbridge]

As a pro feminist, I was in favor of the law. We really need to get rid of pornography. It is degrading to women and it severely cripples the feminist movement. Pornography is not an art form. It does not deserve protection. It is indecent and vile. It is time to "clean up the tubes." I am a shareholder of Time Warner. I have submitted a proposal for voting at the next shareholder meeting for Time Warner to only allow access to whitelisted sites by default and eventually become mandatory.

*sniff sniff sniff*....I smell...*sniff sniff*....a troll!!!!!

Clues that this was a troll:

• Reference to tubes: Very nice, get a poke at Stevens while you're trolling.
• Proposal for mandatory global whitelisting: nobody's that dumb.
• Feminist on slashdot: How many actual women are on slashdot?
• Posted AC.
• Sig: who puts an actual sig in an AC post...except a troll?
• Sig: a sig that has a link to Madonna in a feminist post...compared to a programming language? Hmmm....

Great troll, by the way.