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COPA Suffers Yet Another Court Defeat

Posted by kdawson on from the let-it-die-already dept.

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.

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  1. Re:BUSH = HITLER by nomadic · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Oh. Never mind. I'll just go back to my job at the New York Times now.

    Actually the New York Times has been complicit in just about every lie Bush ever told. They're notorious for constantly backing Bush (this Bush at least, they have historically been a lot more skeptical towards Republicans).

  2. WOW is this just spam by Erie+Ed · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    THE PAIN JUST KEEPS coming for Nvidia, this time in the partner space. Two of their key 'alpha' partners have just defected.

    It is nearly impossible to make money selling Nvidia cards right now, NV squeezed partners margins too much, and when the going got rough, prioritised its own margins over partner survival. This gave partners the choice of popping like a zit financially or moving to less green pastures.

    Like Gainward before them, two of the largest ones, XFX and EVGA have defected. Want to bet Nvidia doesn't know yet? In any case, partners leaving a company like rats leaving a sinking ship is never a good sign, lets see what happens in the coming months when the pain really piles on at NV.

    The really interesting part is who they defected to, and it isn't ATI. Paperwork has been signed though, and it is a done deal.

    I mean seriously how can anyone be more offtopic then this. Do these people just copy and paste random jiberish? I mean who are these people...