Massachusetts Bids To Restrict Internet Indecency 214
Remember the Communications Decency Act? Enacted 1996, found unconstitutional 1997. Or its successor attempt to reduce discourse on the Internet to what is suitable for 8-year-olds, the Child Online Protection Act? Invalidated 2003. Seven state laws attempting to restrict Internet content on grounds of decency have been struck down. Despite all this, Massachusetts has now added a couple of paragraphs to its (traditionally bricks-and-mortar) indecency law that applies a "harmful to minors" test to Internet content. The ACLU of Massachusetts and others have brought suit to block the law, which went into effect on July 11. Coincidentally, today a US appeals court tossed out the FCC's indecency policy.
The Internet: Banned in Boston (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Just remove the "I" and the "n" and I'm all for (Score:3, Informative)
Unfortunately it would seem that Feingold is the exception rather than the rule when it comes to Congress-critters supporting our civil liberties.
Re:Mature (Score:4, Informative)
Did I say at any point I prevent them from going anywhere else? They just prefer to play the disney and nickelodeon games with their favorite cartoon characters. At 10 years old, you are telling me you had more interests then Lego, Bugs Bunny, or whatever was available at the time?
Re:Taxachusetts (Score:3, Informative)
That's called "The Stranger".
Re:Just remove the "I" and the "n" and I'm all for (Score:1, Informative)
I have long respected Feingold. He's one of the few (possibly the only one) who voted against the Patriot Act. As you say though, he is definitely the exception. If only there were more like him.
Re:Religion (Score:3, Informative)
Exactly. We know the Catholic Church has a long history of harboring pedophiles, and I don't need to recite the long list of atrocities committed in the name of "The LORD". Not to mention that one book - y'know, the one with genocide, child abuse and incest, what's it called...
Oh yeah, the Bible! Gotta ban the *fuck* outta that - for the children, of course!
Re:Mature (Score:3, Informative)
For those of us who have closed our Facebook accounts:
http://freestateproject.org/ [freestateproject.org]
Re:Just remove the "I" and the "n" and I'm all for (Score:5, Informative)
Heinlein, not Twain. "It's like demanding that grown men live on skim milk because the baby can't have steak."