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COPA Suffers Yet Another Court Defeat
A US federal appeals court today struck down COPA, the Child Online Protection Act, a Clinton-era censorship law that the Justice Department has been struggling to get implemented for a decade. (The ACLU filed suit as soon as COPA was signed in 1998 and won an immediate injunction.) The battle has made it to the Supreme Court twice, and the DoJ has essentially never gotten any satisfaction out of the courts. This was the case for which the DoJ famously went trolling for search histories. In the ruling issued today, the 3rd US Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a lower-court ruling that COPA violates the First Amendment because it is not the most effective way to keep children from visiting adult Web sites. The law would require sites to check visitors' ages, e.g. by taking a credit card, if the site contained any material that is "harmful to minors," whatever that means.
By idiotic, unenforceable laws that anyone but a mental retard knows is a violation of the Constitution
Well then, I hope I can rest assured that you will be in the 2008 United States presidential election? Since you seemingly have a firmer grasp on politics then those that have devoted much more time and effort into that area of life.
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What kind of fucking retort is that? What the fuck did that even have to do with what I said? I'm only allowed to criticize a law that clearly violates the Constitution if I decide to run for President? Just what exactly are you saying?
Democracy and liberties are wasted on people like you.
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"Perhaps we do the minors of this country harm if First Amendment protections, which they will with age inherit fully, are chipped away in the name of their protection"
- Senior US District Judge Lowell Reed Jr., commenting on this same law when he struck it down last year ( http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/the_web/article1554275.ece ).
But but... if we don't indoctrinate them with censorship now, whatever will they do when their children get into school, and they're asked to read the new Harry Potter-look-a-like book? They need to know how to lay down the ban hammer and throw those books out of school!
They should grow up on Conservapedia, where they liberally censor people, so they know that anything that offends them can be just be told to go away.
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