Supreme Court Rules on Challenge to COPA 298
Publiux writes: "LawMeme is reporting today that the Supreme Court upheld portions of the Child Online Protection Act because using community standards to determine what could be harmful to minors was not overly broad and thus not unconstitutional. Before you stop spreading your 'sexually explicit material' online, a lower court still has to determine if the law is unconstitutional for other reasons." Snibor Eoj submits this link to coverage at Yahoo! as well. Other readers link to AP coverage running at NandoTimes and the decision itself (PDF).
Re:A Good Thing (Score:5, Informative)
Send 'em back to school (Score:4, Informative)
Why it's a slippery slope (Score:4, Informative)
Why is everyone talking about child porn? (Score:3, Informative)
By applying " community standards" bikini pinups could be all that is needed to invoke prosecution under COPA.
It's the disturbing sort of law that makes it illegal to distribute the sort of material it's perfectly legal for the intended recipient to possess, even under the standards of the supposed "community."
KFG
Re:First Amendment (Score:4, Informative)
Hence, picture of the nude Statue of David -- fine. Print of Venus de Milo: fine. Bestiality pictures on basketballs inside a fishtank: hmmm, no.
Re:Why it's a slippery slope (Score:3, Informative)
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HR 4277 [ftc.gov]: the "Quality Health-care Coalition Act of 1998"
Like I say, I may be mistaken, maybe they don't use unique ID's for the bill numbers, but my skeptic alert went off when I read this post that contained zero links to any reputable site.