State Net Restrictions Roundup

Posted by michael on Tuesday September 21, 1999 @08:11PM from the ACLU's-batting-1.000 dept.

TheSync writes "CNET is reporting that the state of New Mexico is in federal court defending its law that prohibits exposing minors to "harmful" material via the Net, in this article. "Harmful to minors" is the new catchphrase for attacks on Internet freedom of speech, now that "decency" limits are clearly unconstitutional. "

The article discusses several state CDA-like laws being challenged, as well as COPA, aka CDA II. People should keep in mind that but for the ACLU, it would right now be illegal to publish any material on the internet that would be deemed "harmful to minors" in any state in the union. I think people tend to forget that. -- michael

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What exactly does 'harmfull to children' mean? by Chandon+Seldon · 1999-09-23 05:23 · Score: 1

How is it harmfull? Can you prove that it's harmfull? Sawing a kid's leg off is harmfull, that's pretty obvious, but...

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Net censorship to be an ongoing war by Seth+Finkelstein · 1999-09-21 13:34 · Score: 1

As we see, the CDA was just the first major battle in what is to be a long war.
-The Boston Lunatic